Probably the biggest one is "batteries included but replaceable." The Rust ecosystem is still maturing, so we did a lot of work to make reasonable default choic

Probably the biggest one is "batteries included but replaceable." The Rust ecosystem is still maturing, so we did a lot of work to make reasonable default choices but still allow customers to make different ones. Some of our other design tenets are here: https://smithy-lang.github.io/smithy-rs/design/tenets.html https://smithy-lang.github.io/smithy-rs/design/tenets.html