Rust in the 6.2 Kernel

• sccache

  70 5,332 9.5 Rust

  Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in remote storage environments, including various cloud storage options, or alternatively, in local storage.

  

> Rust is relatively easy to read I think.

I write C++, Kotlin and Go code day to day, and I respectfully disagree. the syntax is incredibly terse. Most rust code I've encountered sprinkles macros with functions, which have slightly different semantics (note this is not an indictment of C or C++'s macros, far from it), and the combination of macros, pattern matching and unwrap lead to code like [0], which frankly I find incredibly difficult to work with.

> Rust eradicates whole classes of errors in safe code, and unsafe code is more safe than the equivalent C or C++.

Completely agree here, and nopt only does it do that it does so _without sacrificing performance_ in many cases.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/blob/main/src/compiler/gc...

• Rust-for-Linux

  79 3,789 0.0 C

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

  

> Also we’re bringing NPM style supply chain problems to the kernel now?

Nope. They've thought that through.

(In fact, cargo is only used to build test helpers. https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/blob/rust/Documentat...)

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