It would appear that Linux could be forked to follow the Rust preference path. But that would further reduce the number of maintainers. If that were to happen,

It would appear that Linux could be forked to follow the Rust preference path. But that would further reduce the number of maintainers. If that were to happen, it would be very interesting to see whether C-Linux or R-Linux would be preferred by the mega-corporations that are making billions with the Linux based infrastructures.