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 ...

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 Google-backed project to make Rust a second programming language in Linux kernel development after C just took it's next big step. Key to the project is Spain-based developer Miguel Ojeda, who's ...

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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 ...

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, ...

The dream that Rust fans have that the OS will be one day part of the Linux kernel seem to be getting closer He said that this is a tentative first step and one of many before Rust fully lands in the ...

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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 ...