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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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The "tooling" argument is kind of backwards when we're in the kernel. The package manager is not allowed to be used. Even the standard library is not allowed to be used. Writing code free of the standard library is kind of new in the Rust world and getting compiler support for it has been one of the major efforts to get Rust into the kernel. Needless to say tools around no-stdlib isn't as robust as in the user world.
Not true, you can use cargo to build Linux drivers: https://github.com/not-matthias/kernel-driver-with-rust/blob/master/Cargo.toml
That link appears to be for a Windows driver.
Ups, you're right. Still, better tooling attracts more devs to a language increasing the number or people that in the future may work on the kernel and in the future it could be possible to build Linux drivers using cargo. So yeah, today it's not that important but it still a benefit.