Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/910762/

There have been a lot of significant changes merged into the mainline for
the 6.1 release, but one of the changes that has received the most
attention will also have the least short-term effect for users of the
kernel: the introduction of support for the Rust programming language. No
system with a production 6.1 kernel will be running any Rust code, but this
change does give kernel developers a chance to play with the language in
the kernel context and get a sense for how Rust development feels. Perhaps
the most likely conclusion for most developers, though, will be that there
isn’t yet enough Rust in the kernel to do much of anything interesting.