Congratulations to the Linux kernel contributors who advocated for and proved Rust’s worthiness in the mainline kernel. Seeing the experimental tag coming off is an incredible milestone for the project and those developers. Millions of users will benefit from this hard-earned accomplishment for decades.

Over the past year, I’ve been on my own Rust journey. I started with a couple of small prototypes and worked through parts of The Rust Book. That led to experimental features in projects at work, which have now evolved into foundational libraries written in the language. I hope to eventually write a lot more about that.

In addition to the technical benefits of the language, Rust has been fun, and it has made me a much better software developer and systems designer. That’s probably worth another post as well. Someday. Maybe.[1]

  1. After all, it has been a year since I last wrote here. ↩︎