ZDNet

Rust in the Linux kernel: Why it matters and what's happening next

For three decades, Linux has been written in the programming language C. But change could be coming. There's growing momentum behind an effort to make programming language Rust a second language to C ...
TechSpot

The Rust programming language will join the Linux kernel

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 and ...
ZDNet

Linus Torvalds prepares to move the Linux kernel to modern C

We all know Linux is written in C. What you may not know is that it's written in a long-outdated C dialect: The 1989 version of the C language standard, C89. This is also known as ANSI X3.159-1989, or ...
Ars Technica

Linus Torvalds weighs in on Rust language in the Linux kernel

This week, ZDNet’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols asked Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman about the possibility of new Linux kernel code being written in Rust—a high performance but memory-safe ...