Rust things I most anticipate

2023-11-28

A driver written in Rust in the official Linux kernel, most promising ones being:
- Binder (for Android IPC)
- Apple GPU driver (latest update), which seems to be one that has attracted the most attention
Use of Rust in safety-critical systems, Ferrocene being the most likely candidate, due to being the first (and only) Rust toolchain qualified for the domain
Wide use of typst, a more pleasant alternative to LaTeX
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 (latest update)
- rustc_codegen_gcc, allowing Rust to run in more hardware platforms (latest update)
Usage in production versions of Chromium, though this would only be for external dependencies
hyper being used as default HTTP backend of cURL (Hyper progress tracker and cURL progress tracker), because the latter has billions of installations
Removing libc dependency for Linux-based systems (mustang and rustix)
Wide use of Pijul, for I want a better VCS than Git (latest update)