Rust in Linux: Where we are and where were going next
Summary
Also: How to install Linux on an old laptop to give it new life That evalated position is because, as Microsoft Software Engineer Wedson Almeida Filho said, "We feel that Rust is now ready to join C as a practical language for implementing the kernel. It can help us reduce the number of potential bugs and security vulnerabilities in privileged code, while playing nicely with the core kernel and preserving its performance characteristics." Usually, no one wants anyone wasting time reinventing the wheel, but some maintainers are open to the idea of experimenting with Rust, by starting simple with a driver theyre already familiar with. Also: If you want to try BSD, GhostBSD might be your best bet Still, others have expressed an interest in writing Rust drivers, but the required abstractions are not there, and merging would break the "no code without an expected in-tree user" rule. These movements are small steps forward, but theyre all critical for making Rust equal to C as a Linux programming language.