A discussion on social.kernel.org about the volume of patches in seven stable Linux kernels, with participants noting that reviewing thousands of patches requires re-reviewing already-released code for backporting to older kernel branches.
In September 2026, NVIDIA announced CUDA Rust, enabling native GPU kernel programming in Rust compiled directly to PTX. The language supports two programming models: SIMT (traditional thread-based) and Tile (newer, architecture-agnostic), with cuda-oxide providing a custom rustc backend for compilation. NVIDIA is expanding Rust adoption across its AI systems stack including drivers and serving infrastructure.
In September 2026, NVIDIA announced CUDA Rust, enabling developers to write GPU kernels natively in Rust compiled to PTX. The announcement includes two programming tracks—SIMT and Tile—with cuda-oxide providing a custom rustc codegen backend that routes Rust code through MIR and LLVM to GPU compilation, while Tile is recommended for architecture-agnostic code.