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Oxide and Friends · 16 Jan 2025 · 1h 33m · Episode 2

What this episode covers

Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal of Oxide Computer Company host Rain Paharia, Eliza Weisman, and Steve Klabnik to discuss their favorite Rust crates. The guests highlight tools for code generation and formatting like `prettyplease` and `miette`, error handling libraries such as `serde_path_to_error` and `derive_where`, and concurrency verification with `loom`. They also cover graph algorithms with `petgraph`, CLI parsing with `lexopt`, and serialization formats like `postcard` and `bytes`.

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early-stage companies

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prettyplease, miette, serde_path_to_error, derive_where, loom, petgraph, lexopt, postcard, BBQueue, httpmock, camino, evmap, winnow, syn, bytes, buff-list

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