I think it would take a lot of persuasion for Linux to be written in anything but C (and assembly). All their tooling and expertise is geared towards GNU C. Ru

I think it would take a lot of persuasion for Linux to be written in anything but C (and assembly). All their tooling and expertise is geared towards GNU C. Rust is a young language and LLVM based too so I doubt it'll be accepted any time soon.