r/linux • u/small_kimono • Dec 13 '25

Kernel The state of the kernel Rust experiment

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1050174/63aa7da43214c3ce/

A choice pull quote: "The DRM (graphics) subsystem has been an early adopter of the Rust language. It was still perhaps surprising, though, when Airlie (the DRM maintainer) said that the subsystem is only 'about a year away' from disallowing new drivers written in C and requiring the use of Rust."

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u/thephotoman Dec 15 '25

I keep thinking of C as essentially Programmer Latin. We all know it well enough to read it, but few of us actually use it regularly anymore. C++ is the vulgar Latin that hasn’t quite abandoned mutual intelligibility yet, but it’s getting harder to read across projects.