Rust (programming language)
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Rust (programming language) has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
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Jean-Baptiste KempfFrench software engineer, president of VideoLAN and lead developer of VLC media player
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
Kieran KunhyaBritish codec engineer, longtime FFmpeg contributor, founder of Open Broadcast Systems and the person behind the FFmpeg account on X
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
Podcasts
- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
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.