Packt has published a
lengthy writeup of a talk by Josh Triplett on work being done to
advance the Rust language for system-level programming. “Systems
programming often involves low-level manipulations and requires low-level
details of the processors such as privileged instructions. For this, Rust
supports using inline Assembly via the ‘asm!’ macro. However, it is only
present in the nightly compiler and not yet stabilized. Triplett in a
collaboration with other Rust developers is writing a proposal to introduce
more robust syntax for inline Assembly.“

Source: LWN.net – Rust is the future of systems programming, C is the new Assembly (Packt)