Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! The ability to write kernel code in Rust was explicitly added as an experiment — if things did not go well, Rust would be removed again. At the 2025 Maintainers Summit, a session was hel...