Few developers have been as influential to my career as Niko Matsakis. Of course he is a world-class engineer with a PhD from ETH Zürich, a Rust core maintainer who has been working on the language for way more than a decade, and a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS. But more importantly, he is an empathetic human and an exceptional communicator. I’ve personally been waiting for one year to get him on the show and steal one hour of his precious time. Now, finally, I got my chance at live rec...