Torvalds confirms Rust is coming to the new version of Linux
According to reports, Linux creator Linus Torvalds has promised to bring Rust to the operating system.
in the email received ZDNet (opens in new tab)Torvalds said, “unless something weird happens,” the programming language will make it into version 6.1 of the Linux operating system.
It is not the first time that Linux has been rumored to adopt Rust, and some people say that it will be upgraded to version 5.20. This time around, Torvalds’ commitment seems to be bigger, but he did stress that it will “only have core infrastructure (i.e. no real use cases yet)”.
Rusty Linux
Concerns about non-standard extension requirements were reportedly initially raised about Rust’s implementation, but Torvalds explained that Linux “has been using exceptions to standard C for decades,” suggesting the company was ready to adapt.
Linux 6.0 is the project’s current product and will be available for testing from August 2022, but details on the next release have been uncovered, including the operating system’s ability to tell you if the CPU is failing.
According to CircleCI’s report on the most popular coding languages, Rust has just entered the 25th spot in 2021 after falling out of the top 25 the year before. Even so, Rust is favored for its powerful performance and is backed by Google to develop its Android operating system (itself a very popular Linux distribution).
In an article about Google’s Security Blog (opens in new tab) Back in April 2021, Android team member Wedson Almeida Filho stated that Rust was ready to join C “as a pragmatic language for implementing kernels.” Filho went on to explain that Rust “can help [the team] Reduce the number of potential bugs and security holes in privileged code, while working perfectly with the core kernel and preserving its performance characteristics. “
