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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 ...

Rustaceans could just wait for unwelcoming C coders to slowly SIGQUIT... The Rust for Linux project is alive and well, despite suggestions to the contrary, even if not every Linux kernel maintainer is ...

Bare/bones included in Linux-next The dream that Rust fans have that the OS will be one day part of the Linux kernel seem to be getting closer In his This Week… Bare/bones included in Linux-next The ...

The Rust people want to properly define lifetimes and ownership of objects so it is possible to actually write a Rust interface to the Linux vfs system. Even if you don't want to use Rust this is ...

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 ...