How can an ORM be faster than a SQL String? Laila and Sean discuss the latest happenings in Diesel and why it is that a systems language needs an ORM, anyway.

• What is the difference between traits in Rust and typeclasses in Haskell?
• What is a pure function?
• Why Rust Ditched Pure Functions
• The ActiveRecord and DataMapper patterns (not libraries) as defined by Martin Fowler in Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Zero-cost abstractions in Rust by Aaron Turon.
• What should Diesel associations look like?
• Iron and Nickel web frameworks for Rust.
• Adapterizing storage for ActionCable - Thanks Jon Moss!
• Moving ActionCable from Celluloid to ConcurrentRuby - Thanks Mike Perham!