#5: Gui Castelão and Luiz Irber join Arfon and Abby to discuss their work implementing the Gibbs Sea Water Oceanographic Toolbox of TEOS-10 in Rust, and the role of instrument builders in science.
Gui is an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, previously part of the Instrument Developing Group. Luiz is a Computer Science PhD at UC Davis and an avid Rustacean.
Gui’s website: www.castelao.net.Luiz’s website: LuizIrber.org
See the show notes: https://blog.joss.theoj.org//2024/03/josscast-5-rewrite-in-rust
Episode Highlights:
[00:01:55] - Introductions to Gui and Luiz and how they got into open source
[00:09:18] - GSW-rs – a Rust implementation of the Gibbs SeaWater Oceanographic Toolbox
[00:17:13] - Why Rust?
[00:19:53] - Instrumentation culture in oceanography (and astronomy!)
[00:23:17] - Recognition and credit for software contributions in academia
[00:27:47] - Publishing in JOSS
[00:31:36] - Contributing to GSW-rs
Links Mentioned:
See the show notes: https://blog.joss.theoj.org//2024/03/josscast-5-rewrite-in-rust