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

The C Programming Language is quite possibly the most influential language of all time. It powers OS kernels like Linux, ...

At the virtual 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference, where the top Linux kernel developers hash out Linux's future, the idea of introducing Rust as the kernel's second language was introduced.

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 ...

Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and gradual approach into the Linux kernel. By late 2024, however, Rust enthusiasts were ...

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.

Linux is particularly popular in Cloud Computing (see C - Do you speak my language: C is for Cloud Computing, Computer, C, client, cron job, compile, compress, cookie, code, command line interface).

TechRepublic has an editorial that thinks the language of Linux needs to be changed to attract more mainstream users. Language is crucial to helping new user adoption. Confusing them out of the ...