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Alice Ryhl

What Alice Ryhl thinks about Linux

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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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4 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Alice Ryhl has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingWhat is unique about Rust is not any one feature but the combination: high-level reliability with no garbage collector, so it runs in kernels and firmware.

    Their wordsI think where Rust is really unique is in the combination of things. So on one hand, it it doesn't have a garbage collector and it it's usable in low-level context like the Linux kernel or firmware or whatever.

    ↗Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com 8th of 23 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe Linux kernel is unique in having thousands of contributors paid to work on it; Rust does well by any other standard and is still nowhere near that.

    Their wordsI would say here that the Linux kernel is truly unique in this particular aspect in that they have thousands of contributors doing it on work time. I actually think that the Rust project is doing pretty well at having people do it and get paid for it like by their employer, but it's nowhere near the to the same extent as as the Linux kernel.

    ↗Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com 18th of 23 in this recording

  5. Our readingYou can contribute to the Linux kernel without touching the kernel, by building the language features the kernel is waiting on.

    Their wordsAnother thing that's really cool is you can contribute to the Linux kernel without contributing to the Linux kernel, right? because you might take a Rust language feature we need and implement it and now you've contributed to the Linux kernel indirectly

    ↗Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com 19th of 23 in this recording

  7. Our readingRust is no longer experimental in the Linux kernel — the maintainers agreed that at their December 2025 summit.

    Their wordsThe big news were that at the Linux kernel maintainer summit, we agreed that Rust is no longer experimental in the kernel. That was really big for us compared to the previous year.

    ↗Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com 20th of 23 in this recording