I'm not a part of the endeavor and only have looked in from the outside by reading some of the mailing list archives but it never looked to me like it was a res

I'm not a part of the endeavor and only have looked in from the outside by reading some of the mailing list archives but it never looked to me like it was a result of what you describe. Torvalds was welcoming from the get go, even name dropping Rust years before the Rust-in-Linux endeavor even started (which likely helped prompt the endeavor in the first place). Here's what he said way back in August of 2016, just barely over a year after Rust hit 1.0 in May of 2015. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109150/linux-at-25-linus-torvalds-on-the-evolution-and-future-of-linux.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109150/linux-at-25-linus-... > Q: What do you think of the projects currently underway to develop OS kernels in languages like Rust (touted for having built-in safeties that C does not)? > Linus Torvalds: That's not a new phenomenon at all. We've had the system people who used Modula-2 or Ada, and I have to say Rust looks a lot better than either of those two disasters. > I'm not convinced about Rust for an OS kernel (there's a lot more to system programming than the kernel, though), but at the same time there is no question that C has a lot of limitations.