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Re:The Insecurity Industry by GauntletWizard on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:18AM (#27969917)
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210704202756.29107-1-ojeda@ke... - A patch to include experimental rust support, with support from Linus; I believe it's in the latest mainline HEAD.
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Re:The Insecurity Industry by otabdeveloper4 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:44AM (#27970496)
Read my post again. There is 0% Rust code in the Linux kernel at the moment, and no plans to change that.

(And no, "including experimental Rust support" isn't a plan to change that.)

You don't need Rust to compile the kernel. What's changed now is that you could theoretically write a kernel module in Rust. (But you can, e.g., write a kernel module in C++ too, I've done it before.)

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