[LINUX] An empirical study of Rust for Linux

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The research value of this USENIX paper by Hongyu Li et al. is not entirely clear, but it does show that the Rust-for-Linux project is gaining wider attention.

Despite more novice developers being attracted by Rust to the kernel community, we have found their commits are mainly for constructing Rust-relevant toolchains as well as Rust crates alone; they do not, however, take part in kernel code development. By contrast, 5 out of 6 investigated drivers (as seen in Table 5) are mainly contributed by authors from the Linux community. This implies a disconnection be- tween the young and the seasoned developers, and that the bar of kernel programming is not lowered by Rust language.

As a bonus, it includes a ChatGPT analysis of LWN and Hacker News comments.

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