Google and others trying to rewrite more of the linux kernel in rust

As much as I love Rust, I think it has to stabilize a few things first, like its async/await story. A part of the community is very unhappy with it and IMO not addressing this would lead to a premature adoption of Rust in the Linux kernel which will end up creating legacy code that’s almost as ugly and hard to maintain as the olden C code is.

An absolutely valiant effort but I do wonder if it’s not coming too soon.

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