Systemd adds support for components written in Rust

Christian Brauner has announced that hehas merged supportfor writing leaf components of systemd in Rust. Rust will be used only for newleaf components, existing code is not being ported to Rust and nothing thatother components depend on is written in Rust.

Brauner said that theproject would like to move forward with Rust support in core systemd, "butthere are several blockers in Rust's support for dynamic libraries whichprevents us from doing that without massively bloating every binary webuild". Assuming all goes well, it seems likely this work will appear in thesystemd v263 release expected in December.