What Jean-Baptiste Kempf has said about Rust (programming language)

1 quote · 1 episode · May 6, 2026

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, French software engineer, president of VideoLAN and lead developer of VLC media player, has been quoted on Rust (programming language) once in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on May 6, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Kempf said Rust is excellent for new projects but advised against rewriting existing codebases, because reading code is far harder than writing it.
“It is an order of magnitude easier to write code than read code”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 2:34:24

Episodes

#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
Lex Fridman Podcast · May 6, 2026 · 4 h 24 min
Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya explain FFmpeg, VLC, video codecs, handwritten assembly, open-source maintainer burnout and the Google security drama with Lex Fridman.

Others on Rust (programming language)

Kieran Kunhya · 1 quote

Jean-Baptiste Kempf on other topics

FFmpeg · 3 quotes
VLC media player · 3 quotes
Video patents and patent pools · 1 quote
Kyber (low-latency streaming SDK) · 1 quote
Open source maintainer burnout · 1 quote
AV1 · 1 quote
dav1d · 1 quote
VideoLAN · 1 quote