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Rust drivers expected to become more common in Linux kernel (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I could actually see myself contributing to Rust kernel code. C code has always been impossible for me to understand, but the Rust part seems to have a more understandable structure

[–] ScreaminOctopus 7 points 3 weeks ago

I think this is the most important aspect of Linux accepting more rust contributions. More and more existing maintainers are aging out, and people just don't learn or want to build large applications in C anymore. From what I understand companies doing proprietary kernel development have largely made the rust transition for new code at this point, so fewer and fewer systems level programmers will be used to C (and C++ over time) for these tasks. Existing maintainers pressure against rust development could become a threat to the long term viability of the kernel.

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