Short answer: "don't be silly, too many hard things in the Linux Kernel get correct in Rust"<p>What they should look into is trying to build eBPF and XDP in Rust. Then you get that compiled language speed and safety in the kernel.<p>A few quotes:<p>"I view OpenBMC as on its knees with tears streaming down its face begging for someone to please rewrite me in Rust, because if we're going to have a BMC that's going to hang out a socket over the internet, God forbid, or even over the network, I want that thing to be in Rust."<p>"That the beauty of Rust is its ability to interoperate, cooperate, with native systems or C-based systems; allow for vistas to open up."