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snaggen to Rust · 1 year ago

The Linux Kernel now contains the first useful thing built using Rust

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snaggen to Rust · 1 year ago
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Attached: 1 image Congrats to the #Rustlang and #Rust-for-#Linux community: the #LinuxKernel now contains the first useful thing built using Rust[1]! 🥳 👏 It's a network driver for Asix PHYs. It's provided as an alternative to an existing driver written in C. The features are equivalent. For more details see https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/d6beb085e8ff3d9547df8a5a55f15ccc7552c5d0, https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/cbe0e415089636170aa6eb540ca4af5dc9842a60, and https://lwn.net/Articles/949270/ [1] reminder, until now the #kernel's Rust support was not used for anything practical upstream: https://lwn.net/Articles/952029/
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    1 year ago

    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)”?

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      1 year ago

      Yes.

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