Some more details here: https://lwn.net/Articles/860160/ https://lwn.net/Articles/860160/ > The Prossimo project has announced that it has contracted with Migu

Some more details here: https://lwn.net/Articles/860160/ https://lwn.net/Articles/860160/ > The Prossimo project has announced that it has contracted with Miguel Ojeda to work on Rust in the Linux kernel for the next year. Prossimo is a new name for the memory-safety projects being run by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), which is the organization behind the Let's Encrypt certificate authority (CA) project. Google provided the funds to enable Ojeda to work full-time on the project starting back in April. And here: https://www.memorysafety.org/initiative/linux-kernel/ https://www.memorysafety.org/initiative/linux-kernel/ > ...Alex Gaynor and Miguel Ojeda have done some incredible work, both technically and in terms of making the case for Rust in the Linux kernel. Miguel's first kernel mailing list RFC has a lot of great information about what's being proposed. > In April of 2021, were able to fund Miguel to work on Rust for Linux full time for one year. > Sponsors: Google