I think a lot of it comes from the fact that he realizes there is a demand for kernel maintainers in the future and the C expertise isn't there as well. If you

I think a lot of it comes from the fact that he realizes there is a demand for kernel maintainers in the future and the C expertise isn't there as well. If you can get maintainers to come in that are Rust devs then they can work on things without introducing significant issues due to some of the default safety guarantees and guardrails that Rust provides while at the same time having approximate to near performance parity