02:52 - David Herman Introduction

  • Twitter
  • Blog
  • JavaScript Jabber Episode #54: JavaScript Parsing, ASTs, and Language Grammar w/ David Herman and Ariya Hidayat
  • JavaScript Jabber Episode #44: Book Club! Effective JavaScript with David Herman
  • Effective JavaScript by David Herman
    • @effectivejs
  • TC39
  • Mozilla

03:50 - The Rust Programming Language

  • [GitHub] rust

06:31 - “Systems Programming Without Fear”

07:38 - High vs Low-level Programming Languages

  • Garbage Collection and Deallocation
  • Memory Safety
  • Performance and Control Over Performance

11:44 - Stack vs Heap Memory

  • Etymology of "Foo"
  • RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization)

16:52 - The Core of Rust

  • Ownership
  • Type System

24:23 - Segmentation Fault (Seg Faults)

27:51 - How much should programmers care about programming languages?

  • Andrew Oppenlander: Rust FFI (Embedding Rust in projects for safe, concurrent, and fast code anywhere.)

32:43 - Concurrency and Multithreaded Programming

35:06 - Rust vs Go

37:58 - servo

40:27 - asm.js

  • emscripten

42:19 - Cool Apps Built with Rust

  • Skylight
  • Wit.ai

45:04 - What hardware architectures does the Rust target?

45:46 - Learning Rust

  • Rust for Rubyists by Steve Klabnik

Picks

Software Engineering Radio (Dave)

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The Presidents of the United States of America (Dave)

Design Patterns in C (AJ)

Microsoft Edge Dev Blog: Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge (AJ)

The Web Platform Podcast: Episode 43: Modern JavaScript with ES6 & ES7 (AJ)

Firefox Fame Phone (AJ)

iTunes U CS106A (Programming Methodology) (Aimee)

Valerian Root on Etsy (Aimee)

The Dear Hunter - Live (Jamison)

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (Jamison)

Fogus: Perlis Languages (Jamison)

Galactic Civilizations III (Joe)

Visual Studio Code (Joe)

Tessel 2 (Dave)

Event Driven: How to Run Memorable Tech Conferences by Leah Silber (Dave)

Plush Hello Kitty Doll (Dave)

Special Guest: David Herman.

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