Wookash Podcast What About Rust? | Alice Ryhl
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Aug 9, 2025 Alice Ryhl, a Rust language expert and maintainer of the Tokio library from Google, dives into the intricacies of Rust. She discusses her journey from learning Rust in high school to becoming a contributor, emphasizing its unique memory management and safety features. The conversation includes asynchronous programming in Rust, integration with the Linux kernel, and the promising future of in-place initialization. Alice also touches on Rust's strengths in low-level programming while highlighting challenges in game development.
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Rust As Practical Proofs
- Rust blends practicality with formal proofs by enforcing correctness at compile time.
- The compiler acts as a verifier so well-written code often compiles only when it is correct.
Started Programming With Minecraft
- Alice Ryhl started programming by modding Minecraft and learned Java from a Danish book.
- That early hobby kicked off her journey into programming and later led toward Rust involvement.
First Tokio PR Led To Maintenance
- Alice answered questions on Tokio's Discord and added documentation as her first Tokio pull request.
- That incremental contribution scaled into her becoming one of Tokio's main maintainers.