In this episode I talk with Lisa Passing. We talk her introduction to Clojure and functional programming, her intro to Rust, how Rust fits in the functional programming world, and more.Our Guest, Lisa Passinglislis on GithubConference AnnouncementsLambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.:clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.Comcast Labs Connect Functional Programming conference will be taking place Friday March 9th in Philadelphia, PA. For more information and to register visit: https://comcastlabsconnectfp.comcast.com/Micheal Nygard will be hosting a 5-day workshop “Monolith to Microservices” on March 12th-16th in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. For more information, and to register, visit: https://n6consulting.com/workshop/monolith-to-microservices/CodeBeamSF will be taking place March 15th and 16th, with training taking on the 12th-14th and 19th-21st of March. For more information, and to register, visit: https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf-2018.Lambda Squared is a new conference taking place March 30th in Knoxville, Tennessee. For more information, and to register, visit https://www.lambda-squared.com/.Midlands Graduate School (MGS) is going to be held in Nottingham, UK, 9–13 April, hosted by the School of Computer Science, the University of Nottingham. For more information and to register visit: https://www.functionalgeekery.com/MGS2018ElixirConf EU will be taking place April 16th and 17th in Warsaw, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit: http://www.elixirconf.eu/.BuzzConf will take place the Thursday 26th of April, with workshops on Friday April 27th, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more information, and to register, visit: http://buzzconf.org/.Monadic Party, a 5 day Haskell Summer School, will be taking place in Poznań, Poland the 11th-15th of June. Visit https://monadic.party/ for more information and to register.If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.AnnouncementsSome of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you canfind out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.Topics [@About LisaPHPWordPressClojureRustHow Lisa first got exposed to ClojureNode.jsRubyClojureBridgeClojureScriptThe help/hindrance of exposure to other languagesLuaWriting little games to learn a languageWhat was the convincing needed to look at ClojureGrasping what “Code as Data” meansPrinciples picked up from learning ClojureHow Rust was put on Lisa’s radarHesitancy at working with a systems languageRustFest“You can try and it doesn’t matter if you fail”CratesHearing of the idea of a web-framework in RustWorking with a statically typed languageHaskellRust Programming Language BookPattern MatchingHow Clojure inspired ways of working in RustTraitsFunctions vs Closures in RustOverview of Lisa’s upcoming talk at LambdaDaysWhere Lisa sees Rust fitting in the programming languages ecosystemWhen Clojure vs RustLambdaDays:clojureDRustFestClojureBridgeClojureBridge BerlinAs always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.