Kodsnack 245 - An empathetic thing, with Steve Klabnik

Fredrik chats with Steve Klabnik about Rust, why the lucky stiff, Closure and Webassembly.

What does Steve do, how is Rust coming along and how does the process work?

Who was why the lucky stiff and why does his publication later named Closure matter to people?

Finally: Webassembly, making the web good for applications in general and why Steve thinks it will be the biggest thing since Javascript was added to browsers.

Recorded on stage at Øredev 2017.

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Links

• Libsyn - one of the “classic” podcast hosting services
• Steve Klabnik and on Twitter
• Mozilla - where Steve works
• Rust
• Ruby on rails
• Mac OS 9
• Øredev
• Jon Moore gave a talk on hypermedia in 2010
• The “No balloons” sign
• Epics or epochs in Rust
• The Rust programming language
• No starch press
• ? in Rust
• crates.io - the Rust package registry
• Cargo - the Rust package manager
• Ashley Williams
• intermezzOS - the operating system Steve and Ashley are writing in Rust
• Redox
• LLVM
• Servo
• Closure - the book
• why the lucky stiff
• why’s (poignant) guie to Ruby
• Hackety hack - and on Wikipedia
• Shoes
• Steve’s Madison Ruby talk about Closure
• The blog post, as linked above
• Keving Brock
• Imogen Heap and her gloves
• Webassembly
• Nacl
• Dart
• asm.js
• Pnacl
• LLVM-IR
• Ethereum
• Roku‘
• The WebUSB specification
• The birth and death of Javascript
• Dan Callahan compiling Dosbox
• Dosbox
• Netscape 1.0

Titles

• Hi, I’m Steve
• Straight to Linux
• Building a commons
• People over companies
• Could be rich by being miserable
• An empathetic thing
• Words that weren’t going out of date
• Safety, performance and ergonomics
• People don’t build bridges on sand
• My job is all English, not code
• Picking up someone else’s life work
• None of this makes any sense, Steve
• Compile Rust in Rust in the browser