What Alice Ryhl thinks about Python

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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 readingA language can keep changing without a Python-2-to-3 break, as long as code written under the old and the new rules can be mixed freely in one program.

   Their wordsReally the big idea is to say we want the old code to continue working but we still want to change the language. And so the the difference from other kinds of versions of languages I mean Python 2 version Python 3 comes to mind is that you can totally mix and match in any way you want.

   ↗Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com 17th of 23 in this recording