'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman
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- In the future, some Linux subsystems will only be written in Rust.
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At Open Source Summit India 2026 in Mumbai, Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg 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."
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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 new language. It's called Rust.' I was like, 'What? No, C is great.' His friend continued, "'No, no, no!...
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