Comment by mustache_kimono

> Where is the evidence that there is buy in from the actual people doing kernel development now?

Are the people doing the work not good enough? See the maintainers list -- Miguel Ojeda, Alex Gaynor, Boqun Feng, Gary Guo, Björn Roy Baron, Benno Lossin, Andreas Hindborg, Alice Ryhl, Trevor Gross, Danilo Krummrich, etc., etc...

Who else exactly do you want to buy in?

> If the people who work on the kernel now don't like that direction then that's a big problem.

I think if you really want to lead/fight a counter-revolution, it will come down to effort. If you don't like Rust for Linux (for what could be a completely legitimate reason), then you need to show how it is wrongheaded.

Like -- reverse engineer an M1 GPU or some other driver, and show how it can be done better with existing tooling.

What I don't think you get to do is wait and do nothing and complain.