Q&A November 2022

Apologies for the shaky camera in the beginning — it gets better. Other places to find me: https://cohost.org/jonhoo https://fosstodon.org/@jonhoo Questions: 0:00:00 Introduction 0:02:39 Managing/splitting your time 0:08:10 Picking dependencies 0:17:40 Justifying working for Amazon 0:22:30 Moving to full-time open-source/teaching 0:27:05 Beginner-friendly Rust projects 0:32:50 WebAssembly 0:34:58 Why vim? 0:41:25 What would you remove from Rust? 0:45:15 Increasing Rust complexity 0:52:55 Copilot 1:00:00 Rust in the Linux kernel 1:02:30 Management consulting 1:05:15 NixOS 1:07:45 Keeping notes 1:25:10 Playing the piano 1:31:40 Advice for undergrads applying for grad school 1:38:50 Is Rust adoption accelerating? 1:44:10 Rust in critical systems 1:46:25 Favorite podcasts 1:52:25 Moving from LA 2:07:50 Non-technical books 2:10:45 Allocators in Rust 2:13:45 Nervous starting as a software engineer 2:20:55 Aside: camera cables 2:21:45 Alternate careers 2:24:20 Ensemble/mob/pair programming 2:27:40 Rust debugger 2:32:15 Why did you continue in academia after undergrad? 2:40:40 Parasocial relationships 2:43:12 Moving to Rust jobs from jobs in other langs 2:46:10 Why MIT? 2:50:00 Elon Musk and Twitter 2:54:50 Challenges in developer experience tooling 2:59:13 Interesting problems in databases 3:01:25 Actors vs. shared memory 3:03:45 Do PhD if want to join industry? 3:05:55 Camera side-by-side Live version with chat:    • Q&A November 2022