smol with John Nunley

Allen Wyma and Zeeshan Ali Khan talk with John Nunley, contributor to the smol async runtime. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: [email protected] 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 and Zeeshan Ali Khan