TOKYO — At the invitation-only Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit here, the top Linux maintainers decided, as Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer, put it, “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.” As Linux kernel maintainer Steven Rosted told me, “There was zero pushback.”
This has been a long time coming. This shift caps five years of sometimes-fierce debate…

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