> I don't know why people are so against it. There's an extremely high cost to introduce and maintain another language in a stack such as the Linux kernel. Eve

> I don't know why people are so against it. There's an extremely high cost to introduce and maintain another language in a stack such as the Linux kernel. Everyone involved would be permanently impacted regardless of their opinion on the matter. It's not just a flag you can toggle. Otherwise Rust community would have already forked the Linux kernel instead of bugging their maintainers to RIIR. On top of that Rust compilation is very costly. It would render some devices that currently can compile the kernel unable to do so. Last I checked Rust fails to compile itself with 4GB of memory. Here's another user commenting about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23059869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23059869