What Alice Ryhl thinks about JavaScript

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Software engineer on Google's Android Rust team, a core maintainer of the Tokio async runtime and an adviser to the Rust language team.

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1. 20 May 2026

   Our readingThe case for Rust is stronger against C++ than against JavaScript, because in C++ an ordinary mistake is usually a security vulnerability.

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   Their wordsSo, here I actually think it's even stronger. The thing with C++ is that if you make a mistake, right, in in JavaScript, maybe you take down your server, which is already bad enough, but in C++ when you make a mistake there, now it's actually a security vulnerability most of the time.

   ↗Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com 6th of 23 in this recording