[sanxiyn]

If we could do this by waving a wand without downsides (e.g. all existing maintainers magically acquire Rust knowledge, etc.), yes it would be better. No question.

Seriously, people, you can find kernel bugs at will with kernel fuzzers like syzkaller from Google. Look at https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/found_b... and weep.