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.

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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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Want a good tech job? Then you need to know Linux and open-source software. One of the best ways to learn is via a Linux Foundation course. Read now This isn't just a theory being pushed by Rust ...

This weekend, the Solbosch campus of the University of Brussels was once again transformed into the venue for the annual Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM). This year's two-day ...

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 ...