Linus Torvalds: Rust may make it into the next Linux kernel after all

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  • Rust-for-Linux

    Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel. (by Rust-for-Linux)

  • Unstable features usually don't change often, and most features in use by Rust-for-Linux are unlikely to change before becoming stable

  • riscv-rt

    Discontinued Minimal runtime / startup for RISC-V CPU's.

  • 100% rust on bare metal can ironically be UB in some scenarios. See this embedded-rust on riscv issue for example

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  • rustc_codegen_gcc

    libgccjit AOT codegen for rustc

  • You can also build the rust for linux stuff (with slight modifications) using rustc_codegen_gcc (citation for this is the linux plumbers conference talk... not sure if there's anything other than the 3 hour long video I could link to).

  • zig

    General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

  • comptime is its superpower. That leads to proper modules as values, entirely dispenses with macros, etc. etc. etc. It's ultimately just a vast improvement on every single aspect of C AFAICT. See https://ziglang.org/

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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