# Episode 3: The Pit of Stupid

Published 2023-05-18

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

In this episode they discuss:

• What have they been working on?
• Premature allocation optimization
• Squashing Commits vs Keeping Commit History
• Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) vs Pure Rust
• Our game project
  • Utilize generative AI?
  • Character Progression
  • How open will their design process be?
  • "Finding the fun"

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

• BonsaiDb
• BonsaiDb storage rewrite
• Rust's namespaced features, available in 1.60
• ToggleBit's Twitch Stream
• Why does std::env::args allocate?
• Anathema (ToggleBit's text-user interface project)
• Domain Specific Language (DSL)
• Gooey proof-of-concept
• quote
• Rust Analyzer Blog: IDEs and Macros

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