Rust is coming to the Linux kernel

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  • gccrs

    GCC Front-End for Rust

  • Rust-for-Linux

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

  • There's a maintained list of "needed for the kernel but not yet in stable rust"-things here if you're curious.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • mold

    Mold: A Modern Linker 🦠

  • Final link time can be pretty bad since it statically links everything, but there are efforts to improve that - e.g. Mold is a much faster linker (but only stable on Linux so far), and someone recently made a tool to simplify dynamically linking big dependencies (bit of a hack but it can help before Mold is stable on every platform).

  • rustc_codegen_cranelift

    Cranelift based backend for rustc

  • There's also work on a Cranelift backend for Rust which should speed things up even more.

  • watt

    Runtime for executing procedural macros as WebAssembly

  • I think when we have Cranelift, Mold, and maybe Watt all working together then compile times will basically be a non-issue. It'll be a few years though.

  • wg-allocators

    Home of the Allocators working group: Paving a path for a standard set of allocator traits to be used in collections!

  • ruffle

    A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

  • So, I know the memcpy optimization is actually unreliable enough that Ruffle on WASM got a 10-20% speed boost by enabling WASM bulk memory operations.

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