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695 Rust Will Help Linux Succeed and Makes Coding Fun, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Rust Will Help Linux Succeed and Makes Coding Fun, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman

ZDNet reports on June's Open Source Summit India 2026 in Mumbai, where Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman gave a talk titled "Rust and Linux: How the Rust Language is Going to Help Linux Succeed."




Kroah-Hartman said in his keynote that "the [Linux] kernel is moving toward Rust. Git is moving toward Rust. Lots of projects are starting to move toward Rust."


He didn't always feel that way. Kroah-Hartman added, "A number of years ago, when a friend of mine said, 'Ah, you got to try this n

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