• Systemd adds support for components written in Rust

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Mon Oct 26 15:15:06 2026
    Systemd adds support for components written in Rust

    Date:
    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:13:59 +0000

    Description:
    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.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1102970/


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