Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux
Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux
Posted Aug 31, 2024 2:03 UTC (Sat) by sam_c (subscriber, #139836)In reply to: Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux by kees
Parent article: Rust-for-Linux developer Wedson Almeida Filho drops out
> Yes, the upgrade cycle is faster than for GCC and Clang currently, but this is already slowing as the language features needed for Linux are stabilizing, so now there is a minimum version needed, not an exact version.
I think faster is being generous. Nightly crates are still being used and the minimum Rust version is still extremely recent and being cranked up regularly. I think it's inevitable that Rust will be used in the kernel, but I find it hard to accept it's mature enough to merit being there when so many unstable features are needed.
Rust also doesn't, AFAIK, have any LTS versions for its compiler.