Hi! Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:
> The effort to use the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel > is progressing and may be realized in the next few months: > > https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/899182/6c831b90eaee015e/ > https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/memory-safety-in-linux-kernel/ > > Within Guix, we'll need to adapt our kernel build processes in order to > support this. > > Although I help with updating and configuring the kernel builds, I won't > be able to participate in the "Rust in the kernel" effort for Guix. Understood… > So, interested volunteers should begin organizing :) Yup! Now, concretely, how long will it take before key parts of the kernel are written in Rust? Hopefully a long time, no? Per the article above, it’s starting small, with Rust usage in well-defined locations. This is not to say that we shouldn’t start organizing, but rather that we still have a bit of time ahead. (During that time, interested readers can also take a stab at improving support for the Hurd, which relies on that revolutionary technology called “address spaces” to ensure Memory Safety™ among other things!) Ludo’.
