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NetBSD's Kernel Supports Lua Scripting But Don't Look For Rust In There Anytime Soon

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February 2026

For those not fond of the increasing use of the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel or FreeBSD's considerations for Rust in its kernel, you can perhaps find refuge within NetBSD. One of the NetBSD developers has explained why you likely won't be finding Rust code within the NetBSD kernel anytime soon...