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TECHNOLOGYMay 13 · 15:21 UTCTHE REGISTER

Rust stalks IBM mainframes, but only in nightly form

IBM is bringing Rust support to its mainframe platform, allowing Rust code to be used in the Linux kernel on IBM mainframe hardware. This is made possible by a patch series submitted by Jan Polensky, which enables Rust support and adds required architecture glue. However, this support currently requires a nightly Rust compiler.

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