An empirical study of Rust for Linux

The research value of this
USENIX paper by Hongyu Li et al. is not entirely clear, but it does
show that the Rust-for-Linux project is gaining wider attention.

Despite more novice developers being attracted by Rust to the
kernel community, we have found their commits are mainly for
constructing Rust-relevant toolchains as well as Rust crates alone;
they do not, however, take part in kernel code development. By
contrast, 5 out of 6 investigated drivers (as seen in Table 5) are
mainly contributed by authors from the Linux community. This
implies a disconnection be- tween the young and the seasoned
developers, and that the bar of kernel programming is not lowered
by Rust language.

As a bonus, it includes a ChatGPT analysis of LWN and Hacker News comments.