Jon Masters has been involved with Linux for more than 22 years.
There was recently the first (but likely far from the last) Rust for Linux conference, known as “Kangrejos”. The purpose of the conference was to further work toward supporting Rust inside the kernel, specifically in driver code. Much interest in Rust exists within various communities because it simultaneously targets system programmers, but also aims to eliminate various memory safety issues inherent to C code. These issues arise from “UB” or Undefined Behaviour, and there’s a lot of it in the C programming language.