Rusty Linux kernel draws closer with new patch adding support for Rust as second language

A new patch was this week submitted to the Linux Kernel mailing list, progressing the Rust for Linux Kernel project. The new patch will “add support for Rust as a second language to the Linux kernel,” alongside the current C language. The previous patch was in July this year. Notable in this latest patch is use of the stable release of the Rust compiler, though the project still requires some compiler features that are unstable.