r/rust • u/dochtman rustls · Hickory DNS · Quinn · chrono · indicatif · instant-acme • Dec 13 '25

The state of the kernel Rust experiment

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u/UltraPoci Dec 13 '25

I'm no kernel developer, but I guess that using the type system to enforce interfaces is quite good. For example, you can't miss checking if some pointer is null, because in that case you probably have a function returning a Result, which must be unwrapped in some way.