Google's Android team supports Rust for developing the Android operating system. Now they're also helping evaluate Rust for Linux kernel development. Their hopes, among other things, are that "New code written in Rust has a reduced risk of memory safety bugs, data races and logic bugs overall," tha...
Linus in 2022: sorry guys, no releases this year, we’ve been chasing a runaway borrow around the kernel instead of facepalming unexpected memory allocation issues :D