# Episode 2: select * from crabs

Published 2023-05-12

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

The main discussion topics are:

• What have we been working on?
• Learning Rust for new programmers
• What makes Rust so alluring to us?
• What are we hoping to get out of future Rust releases?

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

• BonsaiDb
• Crabtrics (metrics for Way of the Crab)
• Text-based user interface (TUI)
• Anathema (ToggleBit's text-user interface project)
• Zero Cost Abstraction
• Factory Pattern
• Leptos
• ModProg
• REALbasic/Xojo
• Electron
• Tauri
• Dioxus
• Gooey
• Raph Levien
• Druid
• Xilum
• QUIC
• WebSockets
• The Rust Programming Language (aka "The Book")
• Rust Analyzer
• crates.io / lib.rs
• Tantivy
• Dogfooding
• CORECURSIVE #088: Interview with Yann Collet, the creator of LZ4 and ZStandard
• LLVM / GCC
• gccrs / rustc_codegen_gcc
• no_std
• Vec::drain_filter
• Stabilizing Async Traits

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• Email us at podcast@wayofthecrab.com
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