The Google-backed project to make Rust a second programming language in Linux kernel development after C just took it's next big step. Key to the project is Spain-based developer Miguel Ojeda, who's ...

The Rust in Linux debate is over. The implementation has begun. In an email conversation, Linux's creator Linus Torvalds, told me, "Unless something odd happens, it [Rust] will make it into 6.1." Want ...

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When Rust first made its way into the Linux kernel in late 2022 (mainline inclusion began with version 6.1), it didn’t merely introduce a new programming language, it marked a profound shift in how we ...

So far, Rust-Support in Linux is experimental. Which features do you plan to add next? Our primary goal now is to upstream enough abstractions in order to later on submit the first Rust driver to the ...

When Rust was first proposed as a language for the Linux kernel, many of us were skeptical. C has been the backbone of the ...

Rust offers high-performance, high-reliability, and strong security for embedded software and helps developers check for and reduce memory and threading errors common to complex, low-level ...

This week, ZDNet’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols asked Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman about the possibility of new Linux kernel code being written in Rust—a high performance but memory-safe ...