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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 ...

In an ongoing thread on the Linux kernel mailing list, Greg Kroah-Hartman, a senior project developer, for one urged fellow ...

This week, ZDNet’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols asked Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman about the possibility of new Linux kernel code being written in Rust—a high performance but memory-safe ...

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 ...

Microsoft and Linux are adding AI and Rust to their pipelines. Microsoft is leaning much harder into AI development than Linux. Both are expanding Rust, but neither OS will be fully Rust soon.

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 ...