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smol with John Nunley
source link: https://rustacean-station.org/episode/john-nunley/
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smol with John Nunley
Posted Fri, 12 May 2023 15:22:00 +0000
Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan talk with John Nunley, contributor to the smol async runtime.
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Timestamps
- 0:00 - Introduction
- 1:46 - Advantage of smol
- 5:40 - John Nunley’s programming background
- 11:50 - Tauri, GTK and other GUI frameworks
- 16:16 - Async.io
- 19:28 - Writing packages and breaking up packages into smaller modules
- 24:21 - John’s work career
- 25:09 - Windows vs Linux API
- 29:06 -
windows-rs - 30:03 - Windows support with Rust
- 31:46 - Recent changes in smol
- 33:16 - Event Listener and how it works
- 37:26 - Handling pull requests and complaints
- 41:40 - smol’s integration with other runtimes
- 44:54 - smol vs Tokio
- 47:04 - Reason why smol is growing in popularity among GUI crates
- 49:06 - Recent developments in async
- 52:18 - The Async working group
- 58:11 - Community-based crates with suggestions and structure
- 1:00:22 - What to expect to come out of smol in the near future?
- 1:02:11 - Parting thoughts
Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity
Audio Editing: Plangora
Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset
Show Notes: Plangora
Hosts: Allen Wyma
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