What Alice Ryhl thinks about compilers
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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2 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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Their wordsI think this is kind of leads to another way that Rust really helps with reliability, which is that if you're refactoring, I think Rust is really good at telling you all the places you need to update. I've done this sometimes where I would refactor something. I change the code. I change the return type or whatever it is, and then I just fix the compiler errors and until the compiler stops shouting. And then once I've done that, I've updated every place I need to update.
↗Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com 5th of 23 in this recording
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Their wordsI think the same kind of principle applies with agents in that they can talk to the compiler. It will tell them what to fix. So I guess this could be a case. We we'll see. But Rust could be a pretty promising candidate for to use for agents because they can get more feedback and it's just hard it's harder to to ship certain type of bugs or maybe impossible to have certain type of bugs.
↗Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com 21st of 23 in this recording