• Systemd adds support for components written in Rust

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Tue Oct 27 06:40:09 2026

    Christian Brauner has announced that he
    has merged support
    for writing leaf components of systemd in Rust. Rust will be used only for new leaf components, existing code is not being ported to Rust and nothing that other components depend on is written in Rust.

    Brauner said that the
    project would like to move forward with Rust support in core systemd, "but there are several blockers in Rust's support for dynamic libraries which prevents us from doing that without massively bloating every binary we
    build". Assuming all goes well, it seems likely this work will appear in the systemd v263 release expected in December.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1102970/
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