Rewrite in Rust – Gui Castelão and Luiz Irber on Gibbs SeaWater Oceanographic Toolbox in Rust

#5: Gui Castelão and Luiz Irber join Arfon and Abby to discuss their work implementing the Gibbs Sea Water Oceanographic Toolbox of TEOS-10 in Rust, and the role of instrument builders in science.

Gui is an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, previously part of the Instrument Developing Group. Luiz is a Computer Science PhD at UC Davis and an avid Rustacean.

Gui’s website: www.castelao.net.Luiz’s website: LuizIrber.org

See the show notes: https://blog.joss.theoj.org//2024/03/josscast-5-rewrite-in-rust

Episode Highlights:

• [00:01:55] - Introductions to Gui and Luiz and how they got into open source

• [00:09:18] - GSW-rs – a Rust implementation of the Gibbs SeaWater Oceanographic Toolbox

• [00:17:13] - Why Rust?

• [00:19:53] - Instrumentation culture in oceanography (and astronomy!)

• [00:23:17] - Recognition and credit for software contributions in academia

• [00:27:47] - Publishing in JOSS

• [00:31:36] - Contributing to GSW-rs

  
  

Links Mentioned:

• JOSS paper: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05988 

• GSW-rs repository: https://github.com/castelao/GSW-rs 

• Inception repository: https://github.com/castelao/inception 

• Gui Castelao's website: castelao.net

• Luiz Irber's website: LuizIrber.org

• The Journal of Open Source Software (Twitter/X, blog)

• @arfon on (fosstodon, Linkedin, GitHub, website)
• @abbycabs on (Twitter/X, hachyderm, bsky, Linkedin, GitHub, website)




See the show notes: https://blog.joss.theoj.org//2024/03/josscast-5-rewrite-in-rust

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