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Rust is becoming equal to assembler and C in programming the Linux kernel – at least officially, as there is still a lot of work to be done in practice.

The Linux kernel, written in C, is no longer experimental. The 'experimental' tag has been removed after a discussion at the Maintainers Summit. The Linux kernel is written in C, which means it is ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The latest incarnation of the Linux kernel saw the light of day in the night from Sunday to Monday. While the "extensible scheduler" was eagerly awaited for Linux 6.11, the new scheduler has been left ...

Fed up with "nontechnical nonsense" Efforts to integrate Rust code into the Linux kernel encountered a significant hurdle last after one of the maintainers of the Rust for Linux project resigned.

In theory, writing a Linux device driver shouldn’t be that hard, but it is harder than it looks. However, using libusb, you can easily deal with USB devices from user space, which, for many purposes, ...

A new operating system written in Mozilla's Rust language shows there's plenty to be accomplished by thinking outside the Linux box Mozilla’s Rust language was conceived by its designers as an option ...