Comment by account42

> language barriers in the kernel are a cancer

Well they are. Second class citizens like this just cause problems.

> As an aside, would it really be so horrible for kernel maintainers to learn (some) Rust?

Are the Rust folks planning to pay the existing kernel developers for spending that time? Because otherwise it should be up to those existing maintainers to decide and not something anyone else gets to demand.

Overall this just sounds like people crying that their hostile takeover of an existing project is being met with resistance.