The recently announced proposal to make the Rust programming language one of two main languages for the Linux kernel is getting a major boost thanks to Google and the Internet Security Research Group ...

It wasn't that long ago that the very idea that another language besides C would be used in the Linux kernel would have been laughed at. Things have changed. Today, not only is Rust, the high-level ...

Rust is reshaping Linux by improving security and memory safety, and even Microsoft is taking notice of its potential. As more kernel modules are written in Rust, Linux is becoming more stable and ...

The contributions are from tech employees working but the maintainer role isn't as often done as part of that. Hence why maintainers can just go "fuck this" and quit. They're not quitting their highly ...

The dream that Rust fans have that the OS will be one day part of the Linux kernel seem to be getting closer He said that this is a tentative first step and one of many before Rust fully lands in the ...

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What just happened? Rust will soon be part of Linux, Torvalds has decided. The memory safe programming language will join C and the other traditional languages developers use to create new pieces and ...

A new operating system written in Mozilla's Rust language shows there's plenty to be accomplished by thinking outside the Linux box Mozilla’s Rust language was conceived by its designers as an option ...

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Rust uses LLVM as the backend. We "can" compile the kernel using clang+llvm today, but there are a lot of folks stuck on "you will pry gcc from my cold dead hands" and/or "I'm not going to put effort ...