What Kieran Kunhya has said about Rust (programming language)
1 quote · 1 episode · May 6, 2026
Kieran Kunhya, British codec engineer, longtime FFmpeg contributor, founder of Open Broadcast Systems and the person behind the FFmpeg account on X, 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
Kunhya said Rust has an 'Esperanto vibe' and that Rust rewrites must match or exceed existing feature sets and testing rigour before they can replace incumbents.
“It has a very big Esperanto vibe about it. It's like, we're going to solve this and we're doing this in a particular way”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 2:31:00
Episodes
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the InternetLex 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)
- Jean-Baptiste Kempf · 1 quote
Kieran Kunhya on other topics
- FFmpeg · 2 quotes
- Video codecs · 2 quotes
- FFV1 and digital video archiving · 1 quote
- x264 · 1 quote
- Assembly language and SIMD optimization · 1 quote
- Open source maintainer burnout · 1 quote