Summary: <p>Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety. Ben Striegel is one of the original members of the Rust community, having watched it grow from a 30-person IRC channel to an established project with over two thousand committers and hundreds of commercial users. Today he is a member of the Rust Community Team providing mentorship, outreach, and community coordination. He has also contributed to the open-source video game Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.</p> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/randal-schwartz">Randal Schwartz</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/jp_bennett" target="_blank">Jonathan Bennett</a></p> <p><strong>Guest:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/bstrie" target="_blank">Benjamin Striegel</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly</a></p> <p><a href="http://bit.ly/flossweeklyguests" target="_blank">Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future</a>.</p> <p>Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at <a href="mailto:merlyn@stonehenge.com">merlyn@stonehenge.com</a></p> <p>Thanks to <a href="https://www.cachefly.com/" target="_blank">CacheFly</a> for providing the bandwidth for this podcast and <a href="http://lullabot.com/" target="_blank">Lullabot's</a> Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://ITPro.TV/floss">ITPro.TV/floss - FLOSS30</a></li> <li><a href="http://g.co/getgke">g.co/getgke</a></li> </ul>
