> So in my book, it feels very much like C++ with a super friendly and super powerful linter. I mean it's really, really nice, but I don't think you could just

> So in my book, it feels very much like C++ with a super friendly and super powerful linter. I mean it's really, really nice, but I don't think you could just hire random people off the street and give them a Rust compiler and say "This will protect you". I think that's probably an acceptable trade-off for certain types of development, and kernel engineering is probably exemplary of that type of development. I might be more hesitant to endorse it if it was the only way (or only way without major hurdles) since that would raise the bar of entry for people wanting to figure out how to make a Linux kernel module (the "make your own kernel module" howto's are empowering for Linux), but as an additional supported interface with the constraints mentioned in the article I think it makes sense.