Alice Ryhl

Another thing that's really cool is you can contribute to the Linux kernel without contributing to the Linux kernel, right?

Because you might take a Rust language feature we need and implement it.

And now you've contributed to the Linux kernel indirectly.

Or maybe you want to work on the Rust in GCC project and help move that forward.

And so I think there are a lot of different projects other than the Linux kernel that would help Rust in the Linux kernel a lot to contribute there.

Linux has this conference called Linux Plumbers, which, you know, as part of my work on Rust for the Linux kernel, I've been going to for the past few years.

And one thing I think has been really obvious is every time I've gone, you can say things have totally changed since last year.

I've experienced this like four times in a row.

That's kind of pretty cool.

Yeah, I think there's really a lot of stuff that's happening.

I mean, one year I might go and people think, oh, that's some nice little thing you have there, right?

And then the next year...

Now they have Rust code in their subsystem.

It kind of keeps going.

The most recent Linux plumbers from December 2025 was there.

The big news were that at the Linux kernel maintainer summit, we agreed that Rust is no longer experimental in the kernel.

That was really big for us compared to the previous year.

I guess.

Wow.

Yeah, there have been different stuff like that from multiple different governments, right?