> Instead, Bottomley suggested that, rather than bringing in Rust, it might be better to just move more Rust-like features into C. Ojeda said that he has actual

> Instead, Bottomley suggested that, rather than bringing in Rust, it might be better to just move more Rust-like features into C. Ojeda said that he has actually been working with the C language committee to push for that to happen, but any such change will take a long time if it happens at all. Christoph Hellwig said that this sort of change will have to happen anyway unless the plan is to rewrite the whole kernel in Rust; he was not pleased at the idea of rewriting working code in a new language. Perhaps the sparse static analyzer could be enhanced to do more Rust-like checking, he said. Ojeda answered that the result of such efforts would be like having Rust — but much later. Some reasonable people in this sea of sectarian crabs, glad to hear that