Yes, because, without Rust doing the spade work, there will be no integration with Linux when something better than Rust comes along. Rust is cleaning up the L

Yes, because, without Rust doing the spade work, there will be no integration with Linux when something better than Rust comes along. Rust is cleaning up the Linux codebase like porting to Alpha cleaned up the Linux codebase. The lessons learned attempting to integrate Rust into the Linux kernel will inform the creation of next generation of programming languages.