Comment by armchairhacker

Yeah, I don't think there's a solution, otherwise someone would've thought of it.

I'm now thinking the solution is "no Rust in the kernel, but we promise to revisit in X years" (then if in X years the picture isn't clearer, revisit in X more years). As someone who greatly prefers Rust, it's unfortunate, but the alternative adds lots of complexity (IMO more than Rust's type system removes) and that's too big an issue.

Moreover, the would-be-contributors who use Rust can (and IMO should) unite and fork the project, creating a "Rusty-Linux" which would be the base for many distros like Linux is the base for all distros. If the fork ends up higher-quality than Linux, especially if Rust adoption keeps growing and C usage starts shrinking, in X years (or 2X, or 3X, etc.) Rust will be so clearly beneficial that nay-sayers will be overpowered (or even convinced), and Rusty-Linux will become Linux.