The Linux devs are hesitant to use Rust, because it doesn't compile to all platforms Linux supports. So, it can only be used for drivers that are only useful on specific platforms that are supported by the compiler, which meant that until now it only was experimental ones like the graphics driver for Apple Silicon Macs.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So it's the first useful thing built in rust for the Linux kernel?

And the out of context is "First useful thing built in rust (period)"?

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Yes.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

The poster finds it "kinda odd" that people don't immediately correctly interpret statements like this toot as being exclusively about the upstream kernel: https://fosstodon.org/@kernellogger/111742009818641713

I find it "kinda odd" that he expects that to be a natural reading of the original toot.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Kind of deceptive wording. A considerable amount of code, that went into making the Apple M1 through M3 hardware work on Linux, is written in Rust, namely the graphical stack

[–] tbk@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Building a network driver is an excellent use case for the language.