while it's true that Rust has the potential to decrease the frequency and impact of certain types of bugs, i think the GP was saying that Rust's borrow checker

while it's true that Rust has the potential to decrease the frequency and impact of certain types of bugs, i think the GP was saying that Rust's borrow checker is unlikely to revolutionize the way operating systems are designed and the way userspace interacts with the kernel. the GP fails to acknowledge Rust's other features such as its type system, but i'm not convinced those will revolutionize operating system architecture either. that doesn't mean i'm not excited about the potential of a new open-source general purpose operating system kernel written in Rust and entering the same space as the Linux kernel. it seems like a good fit for the language and an area where modernization is past due.