Hyper with Sean McArthur

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Hyper with Sean McArthur

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44 minutes 55 seconds

4 months ago

Hyper with Sean McArthur

Episode 2 – Hyper with Sean McArthur.

In this episode, Glen interviews Sean McArthur, the creator and maintainer of the Hyper ecosystem. They discuss Sean's journey in software engineering, the evolution of Rust and asynchronous programming, and the growth of Hyper from its inception at Mozilla to its current status in the web development landscape. Sean shares insights on the creation of hyper, hyper-util, http, headers, the Warp framework, and the challenges of integrating HTTP/3 and QUIC. The conversation also touches on collaboration with cURL, the FFI layer, and Sean's aspirations for the future of Hyper and the broader ecosystem.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:45 Introduction to Sean and the Hyper Ecosystem
01:48 Sean's entrance into Rust
06:17 The Impact of Mozilla on Sean's Career
07:54 The Development of Hyper and Its Challenges
13:20 Realizing Hyper's Long-Term Potential
15:32 The Creation of hyper-util and Its purpose
17:32 http and headers crates
22:40 Navigating API Design Challenges
22:47 The Philosophy Behind Warp Framework
26:43 Integrating HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Support
28:54 The Evolution of the Requests Library
30:17 Commercial Aspects of Hyper
31:31 The Complexities of HTTP/3 Integration
34:35 Reflections on the cURL and Hyper Collaboration
38:50 Maintaining Open Source Independence
40:16 Future Aspirations for Hyper
41:23 Encouraging Community Engagement in Open Source
42:28 Final words
43:57 Outro

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