Comment by CRConrad

> > a few R4L folks are playing the dramatic victim card.

> Not just 'a few R4L folks', these are basically the spearhead of the effort.

A "spearhead" is by definition a few people.

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

If they want to contribute to the Linux kernel, would it really be so horrible for these Rust programmers to learn the language the kernel is written in?

> There's a reason Rust has passed Linus' sniff test where no other language has so far.

Doesn't seem it has, really.

> the plan is probably to rewrite more important parts of the kernel

So just fork it and rewrite it all in Rust.