Pants with Eric Arellano and Stu Hood
Pants with Eric Arellano and Stu Hood  
Podcast: Rustacean Station
Published On: Fri Nov 04 2022
Description: Allen Wyma talks with Eric Arellano (they/them) and Stu Hood (he/him), maintainers of Pants, a build system made for monorepos. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps [@00:10] - Pants’ Introduction [@01:26] - Different languages used in building Pants [@03:25] - Pants versions [@06:00] - Pants’ history and why it started [@11:09] - What is a Monorepo and why you would want to use it [@13:48] - Polyrepo vs Monorepo [@19:04] - What makes Pants unique [@21:03] - Why Pants needed to rewrite some parts from Python to Rust and other languages [@22:31] - Why Pants chose Rust [@25:46] - Pants 1 vs Pants 2 [@27:12] - Challenges integrating Python and Rust [@29:03] - How Eric and Stu figured out which parts should be written in Python and which should be in Rust [@32:27] - Future plans and what’s next for Pants? [@36:15] - Shoutouts and parting thoughts Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Plangora Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Plangora Hosts: Allen Wyma