Rust Audio Programming with Ian Hobson | WolfTalk #016
For this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview Ian Hobson: a former DJ who transitioned to audio programming, worked at Ableton, and then launched a successful freelancing career.
Ian is well-known in the community for his talks on Rust at the Audio Developer Conferences and on YouTube. He’s also created his own programming language: Koto.
We met at the Audio Developer Conference 2022 and he was kind enough to agree on recording an interview with him. I must say that after recording the podcast, I respect his drive to continuously learn and improve even more!
Ian shares a ton of useful knowledge on
- freelancing,
- Rust for audio programming,
- learning Rust,
- self-organization,
- learning DSP,
- maintaining the internal drive in the professional career,
- and more!
I highly encourage you to listen to the podcast in full!
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Episode Contents
In this podcast episode, you will learn:
- how Ian got into DJ-ing and how he then went back to the univerisity to become an audio programmer
- how he landed his job at Ableton
- why he started exploring Rust for audio
- why is Rust more programmer-friendly than C++
- how to become a freelancer in the audio programming space
- how to stay organized as a freelancer
- what is Ian’s go-to tech stack at the moment.
The episode was recorded on November 3, 2023.