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jbz
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@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

tux Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment - Phoronix

「 formally concluding the "Rust experiment" with upstream kernel developers now in acceptance that Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay 」

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Rust

#rust #linux #opensource

Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

While Linux 7.0 is the next kernel version solely over Linus Torvalds' numbering preference, there is a notable symbolic change that was sent in overnight for this new kernel merge window: formally concluding the 'Rust experiment' with upstream kernel developers now in acceptance that Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay.
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jmcunx
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@jmcunx@mastodon.sdf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@jbz

It is nice they looked at #rust and found it good for #Linux, but may limit what platforms #Linux can run on. Curious what that means for #IOT, which I think tends to have little resources when compared to amd64.

I saw this post here on sdf/mastodon from a #NetBSD developer and it nicely explains why #rust as it is now is not really good for use on some systems:

https://bentsukun.ch/posts/netbsd-rust-kernel/

Rust in the Kernel, and other odd decisions · benzblog

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