Comment by saghm

Even if they made a fork and made it super great from a technical perspective, it still would face an uphill battle from the perspective of adoption. The amount of work to get people to switch over would be enormous, and the fact that there's at least some willingness on the part of Linux to adopt Rust in places makes me skeptical that there really would be less work to try to compete. I'd be thrilled if you're right though!