Rust things I most anticipate

2025-05-03

Wide use of Tantivy, a full-text search engine (latest Quickwit update, a product built on it)
More drivers written in Rust in the official Linux kernel, most promising ones being:
- NVIDIA GPU driver (latest update)
- Binder (for Android IPC)
- Apple GPU driver (latest update), which seems to be one that has attracted the most attention
Wide use of Radicle, an alternative to GitHub that is peer-to-peer (latest update)
Make alternative (to LLVM) codegen backends available in a Rust stable toolchain:
- rustc_codegen_cranelift, which uses cranelift for codegen, is already available via rustup on nightly toolchains, and the immediate benefit is fast debug compiles (updates)
- rustc_codegen_gcc, allowing Rust to run in more hardware platforms (updates)
Use of Rust in safety-critical systems, Ferrocene being the most likely candidate, due to being the first Rust toolchain qualified for the domain
Wide use of Typst, a more pleasant alternative to LaTeX
Removing libc dependency for Linux-based systems (mustang and rustix)
Wide use of Pijul, for I want a better VCS than Git (latest update)

Usage in production versions of Chromium, released in mid 2024
A driver written in Rust in the official Linux kernel:
- Asix PHYs driver is the first, released early 2024