<p>Christian Brauner has <a
href="https://mastodon.social/@brauner/117494833311192688">announced</a> that he
has <a href="https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/44324">merged support</a>
for writing leaf components of systemd in Rust. Rust will be used only for new
leaf components, existing code is not being ported to Rust and nothing that
other components depend on is written in Rust.</p>

<p>Brauner <a
href="https://mastodon.social/@brauner/117494833657858840">said</a> that the
project would like to move forward with Rust support in core systemd, "<q>but
there are several blockers in Rust's support for dynamic libraries which
prevents us from doing that without massively bloating every binary we
build</q>". Assuming all goes well, it seems likely this work will appear in the
systemd v263 release expected in December.</p>

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