Episode 871 transcript

FLOSS-871 Jonathan: This week we're talking with Florian Gilcher of Ferrous Systems about Rust, Rust in the business, Rust in the kernel, the history of Rust, and a whole lot more. You don't wanna miss it, so stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly, episode 871, recorded Tuesday, June the 16th. Rust won't save you It's time for FOSS Weekly. That's the show about free, libre, and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and today we're gonna get rusty. And that's because we have Florian Gilcher, the the man, the managing director, the co-founder behind Ferrous Systems. Ferrous Systems, Rust, you see what they did there? Anyway, he has been doing Rust since 2013, which I think is before Rust existed as it exists today. Wanted to make sure and ask about that. He's a co-founder of the Rust Foundation, been a core team representative, and done a lot of other really interesting things. We're mainly gonna talk about Ferrous Systems, but you can believe we'll get a lot of Rust questions in. I'll probably tease him a bit about rewriting things in Rust and the way the internet seems to be crazy about that. Without any further ado, let's let's bring him on. Florian, welcome to the show…