Alice Ryhl

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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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Linux 4

The 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.
You can contribute to the Linux kernel without touching the kernel, by building the language features the kernel is waiting on.

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compilers 2

A compiler that names every place a change breaks turns refactoring into fixing errors until the compiler stops shouting.
Rust may be the best language for AI agents to write, because the compiler gives an agent the feedback that tells it what to fix.

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cybersecurity 2

Memory safety means an entire class of bug is impossible no matter how bad the code is — and it is the class that becomes security vulnerabilities.
The 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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documentation 2

A design proposal should describe the feature as though it already existed — once as a tutorial and once as reference documentation.
Examples in documentation should be compiled and run as tests, so that changing the code breaks the docs instead of quietly outdating them.

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TypeScript 2

For a TypeScript team, Rust belongs on the backend — API servers — and not in the front end.
Rust's least mature area is the front end: write the backend in Rust and the front end in TypeScript rather than shipping Rust to the browser through WebAssembly.

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