4 ms·
Committing to Rust for Kernel Code
- thesuperbigfrog 3y agoIt is exciting to see Rust start to replace legacy C code in the Linux kernel. It is only the beginning, but everything seems to point to the start of a gradual migration. Reading about Asahi Lina's experience doing GPU driver development was intriguing: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1577667445719912450.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1577667445719912450.html At $WORK we are converting a graphics processing application written in C to Rust and the experience has been similarly enlightening. Learning Rust has been a process, but the dividends are real and exciting.