What Alice Ryhl thinks about design

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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 design proposal should describe the feature as though it already existed — once as a tutorial and once as reference documentation.

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   Their wordsAnd what this is is that in the guide level explanation, you explain your feature as if you were writing a guide as if the feature already existed. And in the reference level explanation, you explain your feature again as if it already existed, but as if it would be in the language reference instead of a tutorial.

   ↗Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com 16th of 23 in this recording