Hot off the press: this episode is a live recording from
Rust Week in Utrecht, just two days ago. On stage with me are two people who hardly need an introduction in the Linux world:
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Foundation Fellow, stable kernel maintainer and an ambassador for the kernel, and
Alice Ryhl, core maintainer of
Tokio and one of the driving forces behind Rust for Linux at Google.
I have to admit a bit of personal history here: I first wrote about Greg more than 20 years ago for the German online newspaper
Pro-Linux. Getting to sit down with him, and with Alice, in front of a live audience to talk about how Rust is reshaping the most important piece of infrastructure on the planet, was a genuine career highlight.
We get into the big questions: Why does Alice believe that interop, not rewrites, is how Rust wins inside Linux? How do you carefully weave in Rust while maintaining a 35-million-line C codebase? And what does it actually feel like, day to day, to write kernel code in Rust?
“Rust is gonna save the Linux kernel.” — Greg Kroah-Hartman
