Programming is a human activity and will remain so for the foreseeable future afaics. I've had a taste of the approach to development required to get good perfo

Programming is a human activity and will remain so for the foreseeable future afaics. I've had a taste of the approach to development required to get good performance in GC'ed languages and it wouldn't surprise me if it's just incompatible with the way most system programmers think. And if that's the case it's a real problem for that approach and I doubt funerals will help it unless there's a concrete reason for later generations of the kinds of developers needed for kernel development to think differently. "You can't get memory safety without GC so they'll be forced to learn" no longer applies (if it ever did) thanks to rust.