[Posted December 10, 2025 by corbet]
The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the "experimental" tag will be coming off. Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust for Linux team.
(Stay tuned for details in our Maintainers Summit coverage.)
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 4:25 UTC (Wed)
by ktkaffee (subscriber, #112877)
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You got me for a second
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 4:45 UTC (Wed)
by josh (subscriber, #17465)
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Phoronix would be proud of that headline.
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 4:48 UTC (Wed)
by corbet (editor, #1)
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Ouch. That is what I get for pushing something out during a meeting, I guess. That was not my point; the experiment is done, and it was a success. I meant no more than that.
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 5:24 UTC (Wed)
by josh (subscriber, #17465)
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 5:47 UTC (Wed)
by sjvn (subscriber, #19124)
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 6:04 UTC (Wed)
by rolexhamster (guest, #158445)
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> Phoronix would be proud of that headline.
Elitist much?
Notwithstanding the low quality user comments on Phoronix and somewhat challenged writing in its news items, the site does provide useful info by way of frequent updates of what's happening in and around the open source ecosystem. Its benchmarks have also uncovered problems in the Linux kernel. In certain ways it's complementary to LWN's coverage.
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 7:49 UTC (Wed)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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And their benchmark suite is genuinely pretty neat.
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 9:26 UTC (Wed)
by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452)
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we all know it's a guilty please
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 9:27 UTC (Wed)
by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452)
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 11:08 UTC (Wed)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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Phoronix also tends to benchmark in the "dumb but obvious" way - just follow the instructions, don't take the time to understand it in depth and tweak obsessively until it's as good as it's going to get. This is useful, because it exposes cases where something is genuinely useful once tweaked into shape, but where the defaults are bad and need fixing.
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Posted Dec 13, 2025 10:23 UTC (Sat)
by bluss (guest, #47454)
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And Phoronix is doing something that we like in science - endurance. They keep doing benchmarks and creating a lot of data, with consistency. It will be useful someday, and we can see long term trends.
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 17:36 UTC (Wed)
by clump (subscriber, #27801)
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Posted Dec 13, 2025 14:07 UTC (Sat)
by Vorpal (guest, #136011)
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And the phoronix headline was "New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay". Did I somehow end up in the mirror universe?
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 7:57 UTC (Wed)
by alspnost (guest, #2763)
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Same here - for a second, I thought they were about to rip it all out for v6.20 -> 7.0!
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 9:07 UTC (Wed)
by adobriyan (subscriber, #30858)
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> Predictable end of the kernel Rust experiment
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 9:32 UTC (Wed)
by evalir (subscriber, #171462)
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Had us in the first half, ngl
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Posted Dec 10, 2025 13:07 UTC (Wed)
by hailfinger (subscriber, #76962)
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That headline was a masterpiece of triggering an emotional rollercoaster. "WTF no way" ... "phew".
Well done!
Jedizlapulga
Posted Dec 10, 2025 14:15 UTC (Wed)
by Jedizlapulga (guest, #180979)
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Sincerely speaking
Meme
Posted Dec 10, 2025 6:32 UTC (Wed)
by mrcroxx (guest, #161669)
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> Mike: rachel and i are no longer dating
>
> rachel: mike that's a horrible way of telling people we're married
hilarity ensues
Posted Dec 10, 2025 10:11 UTC (Wed)
by cbushey (guest, #142134)
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The original title and associated comments gave me a good laugh. Thank you.
I forgot
Posted Dec 10, 2025 10:22 UTC (Wed)
by cbushey (guest, #142134)
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In my original post I neglected to suggest that the original title should qualify as a notable qotw. Sorry for the self reply and thanks for the comment preview feature because it helped me catch a typo.
I was looking for a reason.
Posted Dec 10, 2025 15:57 UTC (Wed)
by stumbles (guest, #8796)
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Well, guess its time to switch back to Microsoft.
I was looking for a reason.
Posted Dec 10, 2025 16:08 UTC (Wed)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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Bad news in that respect - Microsoft is using Rust in the Windows kernel, too.
I was looking for a reason.
Posted Dec 10, 2025 17:56 UTC (Wed)
by ktkaffee (subscriber, #112877)
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Pretty sure they actually shipped it, too, some pieces of the windowing system.
I was looking for a reason.
Posted Dec 10, 2025 19:20 UTC (Wed)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Oh, absolutely. There are even someone who tried to raise racket about the fact that Rust doesn't magically fix all the bugs, but simply stops your system when certain “impossible” things are happening.