Re: 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman

On 20/07/26 at 16:39, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C,
> according to Greg Kroah-Hartman ,
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-rust/>.
> 
> And in contrast, Rust is only stable on a handful of platforms:
> <https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html>.  Most
> platforms are not guaranteed to build or work as expected by users.
> 

It's really impressive how much work the developers are putting in for 
coding in Rust:

~$ apt-cache search librust-* | wc -l
3252

and the speed at which the standard library is growing up:

~$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 apt-cache search libstd-rust-1 | sort
libstd-rust-1.85 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.86 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.87 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.88 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.89 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.90 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.91 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.92 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.93 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.94 - Rust standard libraries

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~$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 apt changelog libstd-rust-1.85 2>/dev/null | head -10
Get:1 https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org rustc 1.85.0+dfsg3-1 
Changelog [79.7 kB]
rustc (1.85.0+dfsg3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * backport fix for gix-features CVE-2025-31130
   * rust-lldb: fix lldb version (Closes: #1100950)
   * cherry-pick fix for crossbeam-channel RUSTSEC-2025-0024

  -- Fabian Grünbichler <[email protected]>  Thu, 24 Apr 
2025 17:47:57 +0200

rustc (1.85.0+dfsg2-3) unstable; urgency=medium

~$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 apt changelog libstd-rust-1.94 2>/dev/null | head -10
Get:1 https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org rustc 
1.94.1+dfsg1-1~bpo13+3 Changelog [90.2 kB]
rustc (1.94.1+dfsg1-1~bpo13+3) trixie-backports; urgency=medium

   * cherry-pick fixes for CVE-2026-5222 and CVE-2026-5223

  -- Fabian Grünbichler <[email protected]>  Thu, 28 May 
2026 21:06:12 +0200

rustc (1.94.1+dfsg1-1~bpo13+2) trixie-backports; urgency=medium

   * Rebuild on buildds.

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ten releases in approx one year, I'm tempted to buy a book to learn 
coding in Rust :-)

kind regards,