Comment by pornel
10 months ago
Linus said he's worried that he and core kernel maintainers are getting old, and there may not be enough younger contributors to replace them. There's an implication there that Rust will continue to grow and attract more talent, and it'll get harder and harder to find devs passionate about old C codebases.
It’s absolutely a wild to me how this is not talked about more. All it takes is for a set of highly praised institutions to use Rust for their major courses and now you will have generations which C is just something you know about.