A cross compiler is easy enough to set up with clang too (just specify the -target command line option). I just think that when starting out in kernel developm

A cross compiler is easy enough to set up with clang too (just specify the -target command line option). I just think that when starting out in kernel development, you're likely going to be dealing with linker scripts for likely the first time. It's been a while since I tried rust for this, but C generates pretty clean object files, so the linker scripts from the OSDev wiki can often be copied verbatim.