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Podcast · 01 August 2022 · 1 min read

Beyond the Hype: Most-loved language – does Rust justify the hype?

Colin Eberhardt, Chris Price , Simon Martin , Rob Pilling

In this month’s episode, Simon Martin, Chris Price and Rob Pilling share their interest and insights into Rust. This relatively new programming language has caught the attention of the development community, being voted the ‘most-loved’ language seven years in a row in the StackOverflow survey.

They discuss a wide range of topics, including what it means to be a system-programming language, and what brought each of them to Rust. They ponder what it is that makes a programming language successful and, given this, consider what the future might hold for Rust.

We pick up the conversation where Chris is trying to describe the nature of Rust through a bicycle metaphor. Yes, really… and we find out later in the podcast that this metaphor works surprisingly well.

Links from the podcast:

Nerd Sniping - xkcd webcomic
StackOverflow 2022 Survey - most-loved language
WebAssembly
Asynchronous Programming in Rust

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Colin Eberhardt

I am CTO at Scott Logic and am a prolific technical author, blogger and speaker on a range of technologies.

My blog includes posts on a wide range of topics, including WebAssembly, HTML5 / JavaScript and data visualisation with D3 and d3fc. You'll also find a whole host of posts about previous technology interests including iOS, Swift, WPF and Silverlight.

I'm board member of FINOS, which is encouraging open source collaboration in the financial sector. I'm also very active on GitHub, contributing to a number of different projects.

Chris Price

My name is Chris Price, I'm based in Newcastle upon Tyne and work as a Software Engineer at Scott Logic. I spend my days developing web apps for financial services companies (unfortunately mostly hidden behind paywalls). I do like to blog about things when I can and do some interesting stuff on GitHub.

Simon Martin

I am a Senior Developer at Scott Logic.

Rob Pilling

I develop software at Scott Logic and have an interest in compilers, following Rust, JavaScript and Swift language development especially. I also enjoy a good walk.

I can be found on GitHub.

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