Matthias Endler

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Here's Rost in production, a podcast about companies who use Rost to shape the future of infrastructure.

My name is Matthias Entler from Corot, and today we talked to Jeff Kao from Radar about building a high-performance geocoding platform with Rost.

Jeffrey, thanks a lot for taking the time today for the interview.

Can you say a few words about yourself and about Radar?

What's your programming background?

What other languages do you know besides Rostam?

That's pretty impressive.

Ruby, Scala, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Python, TypeScript, that's a lot.

And now, Rust, what could people learn from the philosophy of Ruby?

Yeah, when I think of Ruby, I think of elegance.

I think of the joy of programming, expressiveness.

Where would you see yourself more on the programming is a craft or an art?

Or would it be more like discipline of engineering?

Where would you see yourself on that scale?

It's a mix of these things.

Coming back to Rust, with your background, Ruby, Scala, and so on, you have the functional part down, you have the expressiveness down.

That part must have been really easy for you to learn.

Algebraic data types do exist in Scala, and now you come to Rust.

How was that first impression to you?