Comment by kelnos

It's really disappointing to me to see a lot of the negative reactions and comments here. I know it's popular and in vogue now to hate on Rust, but:

Influential people who have worked on the ins and outs of the Linux kernel for years and decades believe that adopting Rust (or at least keeping the Rust experiment going) is worth the pain it will cause.

That's really all that matters. I see people commenting here about how they think RAII isn't suitable for kernel code, or how keeping C and Rust interfaces in sync will slow down important refactoring and changes, or how they think it's unacceptable that some random tiny-usage architecture that Rust/LLVM doesn't support will be left behind, or... whatever.

So what! I'm not a Linux kernel developer or maintainer, and I suspect most (if not all) of the people griping here aren't either. What does it matter to you if Linux adopts Rust? Your life will not be impacted in any way. All that matters is what the maintainers think. They think this is a worthwhile way to spend their time. The people putting in the work get to decide.