Crucially, the Rust for Linux people proposed to do the work to make Rust for Linux. Whenever we see this complaint from C++ people their idea is basically "LOL

Crucially, the Rust for Linux people proposed to do the work to make Rust for Linux. Whenever we see this complaint from C++ people their idea is basically "LOL, Linus should rewrite kernel to be suitable for C++" and the answer is No. That's not going to happen. Once you refuse their fantasy "Don't lift a finger" way to add C++, they lose interest.