Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental

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Rust in the kernel feels like a red herring. For fault tolerance and security, wouldn’t it be a superior solution to migrate Linux to a microkernel architecture? That way, drivers and various other components could be isolated in sandboxes.

Does the removal of “experimental” now mean that all maintainers are now obligated to not break Rust code?

Not a system programmer -- at this point, does C hold any significant advantage over Rust? Is it inevitable that everything written in C is going to be gradually converted to safer languages?

This seems big. Is this big?

I guess it's time to finally try FreeBSD.

The title sounded worse than it is.

C++ devs are spinning in their graves now.

This title is moderately clickbait-y and comes with a subtle implication that Rust might be getting removed from the kernel. IMO it should be changed to "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

Oh dear can you imagine the crushing complexity of a future Rust kernel.

Safety is good.

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They had me in the first half of the article, not gonna lie. I thought they resigned because Rust was so complicated and unsuitable, but it's the opposite

This is great because it means someday (possibly soon) Linux development will slowly grind to a halt and become unmaintainable, so we can start from scratch and write a new kernel.

I’m curious how they’ll manage long term safety without the guarantees Rust brought. That tradeoff won’t age well.