January 2025 Q&A

Also available as a video on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw88-0ofBs0) . Questions and answers session from January, 2025. Timestamps • [@0:00:00] Introduction • [@0:02:42] What’s your stand on “the AI stuff”? • [@0:06:51] Have you had to do a “LeetCode” interview? • [@0:09:52] How can I actually finish projects I start? • [@0:12:53] What is your opinion about nix and NixOS? • [@0:16:48] How do you view the Zig programming language? • [@0:19:18] Will you do any more CodeCrafters streams? • [@0:21:18] will you do any more from-scratch building videos? • [@0:21:57] Do you use a debugger like GDB? • [@0:24:40] Will you decrust rayon? • [@0:26:11] Can you tell us more about ReadySet? • [@0:30:28] Who’s been instrumental in your programming journey? • [@0:34:08] What do you think about Amazon’s recent RTO-mandates? • [@0:39:31] How do you navigate a large codebase? • [@0:45:23] How do I learn to write performant code in Rust? • [@0:49:35] Can we ever be truly free from libc? • [@0:52:15] How did you learn to speak so “carefully”? • [@0:58:32] Do you have any favourite Rust or programming blogs? • [@1:03:23] I’m learning Rust but am struggling to follow your book/videos • [@1:07:48] Should rustc move away from C++ written LLVM? • [@1:11:41] What are your thoughts on the state of IPv6? • [@1:13:30] Are you interested in formal verification? • [@1:25:16] If you could study CS again, what would you do differently? • [@1:29:50] As a Principal Engineer, do you escape the PM aspects? • [@1:34:16] Do you have ethical concerns about working in the military industry? • [@1:44:03] Can you provide more technical details around what you’ve worked on? • [@1:49:30] Thoughts on the Rust 2024 Edition? • [@2:02:12] Rules of thumb for “bolt more on” vs “just rewrite it” • [@2:05:19] What are your main sources to keep up with new technologies? • [@2:09:04] Do you still keep up to date with academic research? • [@2:11:29] What inspired/influenced your way of working with humans? • [@2:18:42] How can we help you make more educational content? • [@2:36:15] Have you read about the academic research around CRDTs? • [@2:37:51] What do you think about Rust-side GUIs like Tauri? • [@2:41:22] What is missing from Rust? • [@2:51:00] What are you looking forward to the most in 2025? • [@2:53:22] How are the cats doing? • [@2:56:56] Is this OK to wish Helsing will never need to use its products? • [@2:58:55] How do you choose the right abstractions when coding in Rust? • [@3:01:18] Is the Rust performance debugging experience worse on macOS than Linux? • [@3:03:49] Have you ever used Elixir/Erlang/other BEAM-based languages? • [@3:07:49] Rust with a team who are excited about Rust but have no experience • [@3:10:06] What’s a concept that you initially found challenging? • [@3:13:35] Picking Rust as a startup language • [@3:15:27] Is the adoption of Rust slowing down? • [@3:16:50] What new technologies are you willing to learn this year? • [@3:18:03] Have you considered going vegan? • [@3:20:37] Does Helsing sell arms to Israel and would you stay if they did? • [@3:22:06] What is something that you think is underrated? • [@3:29:18] Running through remaining questions (list in description) Here are the questions I covered in the “run through” at the end. There were way more questions left that these, but these are the ones we go to! • What is one thing you regret learning in 2024? • Thoughts on gpui from the zed team? • What language would you “main” if rust wouldn’t exist? • How do you see Rust in Linux kernel? • Have you used ghostty? • Have you made any updates to your setup recently? • Are you neurotypical? • What do you think about graphics programming in Rust? 3:32:14 • Why is your mascot a llama? • How hard is it to land a first job working with Rust? • Will you decrust actix-web? • Have you ever had to fix memory fragmentation issues in ...