Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel?

47 · Drew DeVault · Oct. 3, 2022, 8:36 p.m.
I am known to be a bit of a polemic when it comes to Rust. I will be forthright with the fact that I don’t particularly care for Rust, and that my public criticisms of it might set up many readers with a reluctance to endure yet another Rust Hot Take from my blog. My answer to the question posed in the title is, of course, “no”. However, let me assuage some of your fears by answering a different question first: does Hare belong in the Linux kernel? If I should owe my allegiance to any programmin...