systems-programming

Linux 7.0, expected in mid-April 2026, formally ends the three-year Rust experiment in the kernel. The decision, reached at the 2025 Maintainers Summit in Tokyo, promotes Rust from experimental status to a core kernel language alongside C and assembly.

Rust 1.94.0 stabilizes array_windows and AVX-512 FP16 intrinsics as the project finalizes 65 goals for 2026 targeting faster compilation, trait overhauls, and deeper Linux kernel integration.

Zig 0.16.0 approaches general availability with async I/O redesigned from scratch, using an injected Io interface that lets the same code run on thread pools or event loops without recompilation.

Rust 1.93.0 ships musl 1.2.5, allocator and asm! improvements, and new stabilized APIs.