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Rust Programming Language To Land in Linux Kernel 6.1

In a recent post on the Linux Kernel mailing list, Linus Torvalds promised “a pretty core number of new features” for the Linux kernel. (opens in new tab) 6.1, and the first one seems to have appeared: reportedly register (opens in new tab)the Rust programming language is directly supported in the OS.

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This news is not entirely unexpected, as a patch was released some time ago to add Rust to Linux. Version 9 is coming in August 2022. At the recent Open Source Summit, Torvalds’ keynote indicated that we should expect Rust to arrive in 6.1.Rust currently has developer group We’re working on Linux kernel support, and we see the first steps towards its inevitable arrival in 6.1 in a pull request created by Kees Cook and approved by Torvalds on October 1st.

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