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 ...
Prominent Linux kernel developers gathered to share insights on kernel development's current state and future at a recent roundtable discussion during the Open Source Summit Europe in Vienna. 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 ...
The Linux kernel is not a place to work if you’re not ready for some, shall we say, spirited argument. Still, one key developer in the project to expand Rust’s place inside the largely C-based kernel ...
This weekend, the Solbosch campus of the University of Brussels was once again transformed into the venue for the annual Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM). This year's two-day ...
Linux and Windows are quietly undergoing one of the biggest rewrites in their history, as artificial intelligence collides with Rust to reshape how low level code is produced and maintained. Instead ...
Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and gradual approach into the Linux kernel. By late 2024, however, Rust enthusiasts were ...