[Posted December 10, 2025 by corbet]
The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the "experimental" tag will be coming off. Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust for Linux team.
(Stay tuned for details in our Maintainers Summit coverage.)
Posted Dec 10, 2025 4:25 UTC (Wed) by ktkaffee (subscriber, #112877) [Link] (5 responses)
You got me for a second
Posted Dec 10, 2025 4:45 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link] (4 responses)
Phoronix would be proud of that headline.
Posted Dec 10, 2025 4:48 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (2 responses)
Posted Dec 10, 2025 5:24 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]
Posted Dec 10, 2025 5:47 UTC (Wed) by sjvn (guest, #19124) [Link]
Posted Dec 10, 2025 6:04 UTC (Wed) by rolexhamster (guest, #158445) [Link]
Elitist much?
Notwithstanding the low quality user comments on Phoronix and somewhat challenged writing in its news items, the site does provide useful info by way of frequent updates of what's happening in and around the open source ecosystem. Its benchmarks have also uncovered problems in the Linux kernel. In certain ways it's complementary to LWN's coverage.
Posted Dec 10, 2025 6:32 UTC (Wed) by mrcroxx (guest, #161669) [Link]
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