Rust for Linux? The move to make Rust a second language for developing the Linux kernel is gathering momentum. But there are still challenges ahead.

Step by step, the Rust programming language is moving deeper into 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 ...

C versus Rust As of now, the Linux kernel is written in the C programming language—essentially, the same language used to write kernels for Unix and Unix-like operating systems since the 1970s.

Google said Thursday it's funding a project to increase Linux security by writing parts of the operating system's core in the Rust programming language, a modernization effort that could bolster ...