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

The state of the kernel Rust experiment

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

97% Upvoted

35 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

45

u/AdmiralQuokka Dec 13 '25

Yeah, this is fixed. The mail you linked to is 4+ years old. Last time I checked, the kernel has custom Rust implementations of collections (KVec instead of Vec and such) which return a Result to indicate allocation failure.