Allen Wyma talks with DongYoon Kang aka kdy, creator of SWC, a Rust-based platform for creating fast developer tools. It’s used in existing projects such as Next.js, Parcel, and Deno.
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Timestamps
[@0:00] - Meet DongYoon Kang, creator of SWC, the Rust-based platform for the Web
[@1:54] - SWC creation & background
[@5:00] - Adoption by Deno, Next.js, and others
[@8:45] - Learning Rust and building SWC
[@11:14] - Community contributions and team structure
[@14:48] - Performance improvements with Chili
[@17:57] - SWC modules and supported languages
[@20:28] - Exploring Dart support
[@21:37] - Future plans for SWC
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
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Hosts: Allen Wyma
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24:50
AccessKit with Matt Campbell and Arnold Loubriat
With AccessKit, Matt Campbell and Arnold Loubriat took on the ambitious task of abstracting over
the accessibility APIs of several target OS’ to offer toolkit providers one unified way to make their UIs accessible across platforms.
This interview was recorded live at RustWeek 2025 with your host Luuk van der Duim.
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Timestamps & referenced resources
[@1:11] - Introducing Matt and Arnold.
[@1:45] - “What are you working on?”
[@2:00] - “What does it offer?”
[@2:28] - “Who would use AccessKit?”
[@2:51] - AccessKit bindings in languages besides Rust.
[@3:14] - Unifying accessibility protocols.
[@4:47] - AccessKit’s API.
[@6:58] - AccessKit tree concepts.
[@8:47] - When Arnold got involved.
[@9:08] - 6000 lines of code to find Matt.
[@12:56] - Matt’s history with Windows and Microsoft.
[@14:00] - How Quorum relates to AccessKit,
Quorum
[@15:52] - Challenges Quorum UI development faced.
[@18:12] - Arnold and Matt on the necessity for back-end testing, Android, iOS - Linux.
[@21:45] - On Newton and its Chromium relation.
Newton
[@27:55] - Newton on other compositers.
[@29:20] - Wayland protocol purists versus Gnome D-Bus frictions.
“Next-generation accessibility architecture” document
[@31:03] - Where can people find Arnold?
Arnold on GitHub as ‘DataTriny’
Arnold Loubriat on LinkedIn
DataTriny on Mastodon
[@31:39] Where can people find Matt?
Matt Campbell on GitHub
AccessKit website.
[@31:53] Your host can be found on GitHub.
Luuk van der Duim
Odilia screen reader
atspi crate
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Luuk van der Duim
Samples used in interruption:
“Vinyl - 45RPM - Start 2”
by: day-garwood
License: Attribution 3.0
Record Scratch #3
by: musicvision31
License: Creative Commons 0
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Luuk van der Duim
Hosts: Luuk van der Duim
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32:52
Rust at Work with Ran Reichman Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion
Gábor Szabó talks with Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion, a company building high-performance data processing systems using Rust.
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Timestamps & referenced resources
[@0:00] - The Code-Maven live meeting series on Rust at Work.
[@1:03] - Welcome to Ran Reichman, Co-Founder and CEO of Flarion.
Talpiot program
Wiz, About Wiz
[@3:19] - When did you start using Rust?
[@3:58] - Why did you think that Rust is good for this start-up company? And has it proven to be?
Polars
Apache Data Fusion
[@5:43] - Inviting the audience in the live conversation to ask questions in the chat.
[@6:22] - Have you considered other languages?
[@7:02] - What kind of Rust developers do you work with?
[@8:23] - Is any part of Flarion open source? Is it on GitHub?
[@9:22] - How do you handle the hundreds of open source dependencies of Flarion?
[@12:13] - Have you considered sponsoring open source developers? Bug bounties?
[@13:23] - What do you mainly do with Rust?
Scala
Apache Spark
Python
Ray
JNI
[@14:38] - Besides Rust, what other programming languages do you use?
[@15:18] - Do you expect new joiners to know Rust, or can they learn on the job?
[@17:44] - Are there parts of Rust that you avoid using?
[@18:41] - How easy for you to recruit developers?
[@20:56] - What are resources you recommend for people learning Rust?
The Rust book
[@25:04] - Do you have any suggestions for someone who’d like to move from web dev to Rust/C/etc.?
[@27:01] - What should I do to increase my chances of being hired?
Proof of work
[@36:11] - How do you evaluate your decision to use Rust?
[@37:19] - What are the good and bad parts of Rust and its ecosystem?
[@42:05] - Home assignments where candidates fix issues in open source projects
[@43:18] - Debuging distributed and high-performance use cases
Tracy Frame profiler
[@46:35] - What is your experience using AI tools writing Rust code?
Claude
ChatGPT
Deep Seek R1
[@49:45] - What would you tell other founders, CTOs, and technology manager considering Rust?
[@51:43] - What is next for Flarion?
Flarion on Linkedin for available jobs.
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Gábor Szabó
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Gábor Szabó
Hosts: Gábor Szabó
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56:47
What's New in Rust 1.79 and 1.80
Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.79 and 1.80 releases of Rust.
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Timestamps & referenced resources
[@01:02] - Rust 1.79
[@01:02] - Inline const expressions
[@08:33] - Bounds in associated type position
[@14:11] - Extending automatic temporary lifetime extension
Mara’s blog post on temporary lifetimes
[@21:55] - Frame pointers enabled in standard library builds
Does omitting the frame pointer really affect performance?
[@25:37] - Stabilized APIs
[@25:37] - {integer}::unchecked_add
[@27:39] - <*const [T]>::len
[@29:21] - <[u8]>::utf8_chunks
[@31:21] - CStr::count_bytes
[@32:41] - num::NonZero<T>
[@36:30] - io::Error::downcast
[@36:50] - path::absolute
[@38:18] - Changelog deep-dive
[@38:31] - Stabilize WASM target features that are in phase 4 and 5
[@39:15] - Document overrides of clone_from() in core/std
[@41:46] - Switch to using gitoxide by default for listing files in cargo
[@43:03] - Stabilize lint unnameable_types
[@44:46] - manual_clamp lint
[@45:46] - Rust 1.80
[@46:09] - LazyCell and LazyLock
[@53:42] - Checked cfg names and values
Detailed blog post on checked cfg
[@56:41] - Exclusive ranges in patterns
[@58:52] - Stabilized APIs
[@59:05] - Vec::<[T; N]>::into_flattened
<[[T; N]]>::as_flattened
[@1:00:31] - <[u8]>::trim_ascii
[@1:02:06] - NonNull::add and other ptr-like methods
[@1:03:41] - impl IntoIterator for Box<[T]>
[@1:05:46] - Option::take_if
[@1:07:30] - Ipv4Addr::to_bits
[@1:09:10] - Changelog deep-dive
[@1:09:25] - x86_64-unknown-linux-none
[@1:11:07] - Add size_of and align_of to the prelude
[@1:12:34] - Never type fallback flowing into unsafe
[@1:17:29] - New panics and aborts in the standard library
Abort when OwnedFd is violated
Panic if set_extension adds /
[@1:20:28] - Restore enum variants in rustdoc for type aliases
[@1:21:12] - Change assigning_clones lint to pedantic
[@1:22:15] - Turn lints into hard errors
[@1:22:49] - env::set_var regression
[@1:24:34] - StdoutLock regression
[@1:26:00] - Rust 1.80.1
Fixes miscompilation when comparing
floats
and false positives in the dead_code
lint.
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Jon Gjengset
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Jon Gjengset
Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel
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1:27:46
Dataland with Howard Zuo
Allen Wyma talks with Howard Zuo, CEO at Dataland, a software company that builds AI agents for customer support teams, using Rust.
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Timestamps
[@0:00] - Introduction to Howard Zuo and Dataland
[@2:21] - Supported data sources and plugins
[@5:36] - Challenges with data diversity
[@9:12] - Focus on customer support teams
[@13:02] - Choosing Rust for performance and safety
[@18:39] - Comparing Rust to Go
[@24:10] - Learning async and debugging
[@30:28] - Rust’s ecosystem for data processing
[@48:32] - Rust and WebAssembly for UI performance
[@57:14] - Closing thoughts
Credits
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Audio Editing: Plangora
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Hosts: Allen Wyma
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