systemd loves Rust

Nov 3, 20266 min readsystemd ❤️ RustBy Christian Brauner and Lennart PoetteringTable of contentssystemd recently merged support for Rust. Going forward it will be possible to write systemd components in Rust in addition to C. The choice to integrate another core language into a large and established project is always contentious. We have seen the same when Rust was adopted as an additional language for the Linux kernel. As we know by now, that has mostly been successful. Rust support in systemd has two possible meanings: leaf components (individual binaries) root components (Rust in the fundamental libsystemd-shared.so shared library itself) The project came to the conclusion that (1) is acceptable while (2) is (currently) not, as the scope and requirements are very different…