Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl

The Pragmatic Engineer · May 20, 2026 · 1h 4m

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Rust is one of the most admired programming languages around – and also one of the hardest to learn. What makes developers stick with it?

In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, I sit down with…