Doing a top down rewrite of an OS is an absurd task, so regrardless of merit, C is going to retain its place there by momentum. If it’s going to be replaced at

Doing a top down rewrite of an OS is an absurd task, so regrardless of merit, C is going to retain its place there by momentum. If it’s going to be replaced at all, it will be incrementally, and until recently, the powers that be have kept other languages out of that space (and for good reason, since multiple languages interacting have complexity costs, again regardless of individual language merits). But we have started seeing just a bit of Rust support in Linux now…