Allen Wyma talks with Lily Mara, the author of the book Refactoring to Rust.

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Timestamps

[@1:26] - Lily’s Bio [@3:33] - Her blogs helped her improve her writing [@5:09] - How the book came to be [@9:34] - Knowing when to add a new language to an existing project [@12:07] - Tools for measuring memory usage [@15:04] - Garbage collection [@18:30] - Strongly and weakly typed languages & dynamic vs static dispatch [@21:13] - About the book [@25:40] - Go being treated like a C library [@27:02] - Memory allocators [@35:51] - When did Lily started working on the book? [@37:44] - Writing examples (it’s hard!) [@46:36] - How technical are the editors? [@49:00] - The Rust community is very welcoming [@50:14] - Publishers that are publishing Rust books [@52:17] - Lily’s Twitch stream for Manning [@53:07] - Lily’s advice for aspiring Rust developers

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Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma