The Google-backed project to make Rust a second programming language in Linux kernel development after C just took it's next big step. Key to the project is Spain-based developer Miguel Ojeda, who ...

Programming languages: Rust in the Linux kernel just got a big boost from Google Momentum grows behind the push to make Rust a second language for the development of the Linux kernel and drivers.

What just happened? Rust will soon be part of Linux, Torvalds has decided. The memory safe programming language will join C and the other traditional languages developers use to create new pieces ...

The Linux kernel implementation, for example, is starting on the periphery by supporting Rust-based drivers, the programs that coordinate between an operating system and hardware like a printer.

Linus Torvalds, founder and leader of the Linux kernel programming project, said a year ago he hoped to release version 2.6 in June 2003.