Rustacean Station

Allen Wyma talks with Marcin Kulik about his work on asciinema, a service that allows people to record their terminal windows to share with others, that has the custom asciinema player written in Rust.

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• [@00:00] - Introduction
• [@01:56] - Overview of Asciinema: A suite of tools for recording, replaying, and sharing terminal sessions
• [@09:11] - More about Marcin Kulik, the creator of Asciinema, and his background
• [@10:08] - Inspiration behind the creation of Asciinema
• [@18:52] - Marcin’s journey into Rust
• [@23:15] - Balancing paid development and consulting services for Asciinema
• [@24:36] - Progress on the Rust rewrite
• [@28:37] - AGG (Asciinema GIF generator)
• [@34:44] - Maintaining multiple languages and the role of Rust
• [@40:17] - Future plans for Asciinema and potential features
• [@47:23] - Closing discussion

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

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Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma