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The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the "experimental" tag will be coming off. Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust for Linux team.

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 9 minutes ago

I would have guessed that mixing different programming languages would cause problems. But apparently it's working well.
It's been 20 years since I did any serious programming, so I'm a bit rusty, is that what Rust is for?

[-] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 0 points 2 minutes ago

No, rust is to make you feel like you haven't programmed seriously in 20 years when you first pick it up, even though you are actively doing it.

Before the angry rust "mob" comes to get me: this is a joke. I tried rust out of genuine curiosity, cobbled together a silly little thing, and quite liked it. The borrow checker made me feel like a total beginner again, in some aspects, and it was great to get that feeling again.

Ultimately it does not fit my needs, but there are a few features I am pretty envious of. I can totally see why it's getting such a following, and I hope it keeps growing.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 hours ago

Ambiguous title is ambiguous ಠ_ಠ

[-] TheFermentalist@reddthat.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Yep. Came here ready to rant

[-] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 3 points 44 minutes ago

You scared me for a second

[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 8 points 2 hours ago

This means that drivers written in Rust will have just a good a chance to be accepted as drivers written in C?

[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 13 points 2 hours ago

I guess that still depends on the maintainer which is responsible. But since drivers often deal with untrusted data, which can lead to security exploits, this makes a lot of sense.

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