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Oh yeah, rust has to win, but I think this was an empathy-free paradigm war masquerading as an innocent request for information. I think trying to bolt rust into Linux is a strategic error. It's going to cause quite a lot of unnecessary friction and an awful lot of unnecessary technical complication and will be absolutely riddled with complexities and ways of doing things that are inherently unsafe. Instead build a posix compliant OS as rust from the bottom up and it'll knock the spots off Linux and will be rock solid. It'll take well over a decade but it'll be far, far better.
That's already being attempted in the form of Redox OS. Though I don't think it's 100% POSIX compliant. Linux has so much inertia though, and Linus seems all for including Rust in Linux.