Podcast: Netstack.fm, story of Rust's networking with hyper

Last week I was a guest on the Netstack podcast. We talked abit about how I got into Rust, how async Rust developed, and the story behind hyper and its surrounding ecoystem.

We started (and ended) with my goal of better software:

On your about page, you say that “Rust is the least bad option.” Can you elaborate a bit on that?

Yeah, I love Rust. I think Rust solves a ton of problems, but I also don’t want to be stuck when something better comes along, which it inevitably will. Then yeah, I’ll move to that. To me, all these tools are the means to an end, which is to make better software.

The rest of the conversation was really fun to talk about:

7:54: beginning of hyper, async Rust
13:20: hyper as something bigger
15:36: splitting off hyper-util
17:35: the http and headers crates
22:51: motivation behind warp
29:00: reqwest as the opinionated layer
30:17: open source independence
31:31: HTTP/3 in hyper and reqwest
39:40: hyper in 5 years, contributors, ownership