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  • The crucial point is that the people who can work on the kernel now itself are

    • c people who don’t know rust yet
    • c people who know rust well

    The moment we get rust in there, the people who can work on the kernel reliably as a whole are

    • c people who know rust well

    That’s a much smaller group than the one above.

    Here’s the point: THE SAME ISSUE would arise if it were D, or some kind of compiled python, object-oriented bash static objects, if that existed; or anything. Whatever the other language was, it’d present the same risk.

    Rust people: it’s not about you. It’s about splitting the codebase.