Rust in the Linux kernel: balance after several years

Four and a half years after Rust officially entered Linux 6.1, with real Apple GPU and NVMe drivers in production and several public conflicts between maintainers, it is time for a sober technical balance. What works, what still costs, and where the next phase is heading.

March 8, 2026 5 min 268 4.3

Software Development

Rust 1.75 and 1.76: Improvements Noticeable Daily

Rust 1.75 stabilises async fn in traits, return-position impl Trait, and several byte-level pointer methods such as byte_add. Rust 1.76 adds an ABI guarantee between char and u32, plus convenience utilities like Result::inspect and type_name_of_val. Two releases that add real ergonomics without flashy gestures.

November 7, 2024 6 min 221 4.3