"As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase" by @ArsTechnica / @kevinpurdy - Conflicts over #Rust🦀 adoption in #Linux🐧 #Kernel had to be settled by Linus Torvalds himself. The new boundary: maintainers of C APIs do not have to deal with Rust if they don't want to. But they can't object to Rust outside their code base or block Rust-C adapter code's use of their code. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/linux-leaders-pave-a-path-for-rust-in-kernel-while-supporting-c-veterans/ #RustLang #OpenSource #software #engineering #tech
@KO6YQ @ArsTechnica @kevinpurdy Good grief... what exactly are they writing in rust? I'm guessing it's vital, core functionality that has already been written, and not new hardware drivers. Because that's what Rust programmers do. -_-
On a related note, looking for a new C compiler, tcc is missing libbfd.