# Episode 1: Hello, World!

Published 2023-05-05

Ecton and ToggleBit meet for an introductory episode of The Way of the Crab.

The main topics are:

• Who are we?
• How did we start programming?
• When did we start using Rust?
• What are we trying to build?
• What does each of us think our favorite/most-often-used crate is?

We also talk about our user interface projects that we've been working on recently.

Here are links to various topics mentioned throughout the episode. The list is organized by when it is first mentioned.

• Ecton (GitHub)
• BonsaiDb
• HyperCard
• ToggleBit (GitHub) / ToggleBit (Twitch)
• Dining Philosophers problem
• Rocket
• Coffee with Butterscotch
• i3 Window Manager
• tui-rs, now maintained as ratatui
• crossterm
• ncurses
• ToggleBit's TUI library, whose name wasn't mentioned in the episode: Anathema
• Gooey
• leptos
• flume
• slotmap
• slab

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