[short_sells_poo]

I don't use rust so I have no money in this game, but based on the two links you provided, Rust ranks the highest among the "safety minded" languages. It ranks the same level as Ruby, Swift, Matlab or R in the Jetbrains ranking. That's incredible for such a new language.

I mean, neither Ada nor Zircon are even on the lists, so in terms of mindshare, they are clearly blown out of the water by Rust (from the evidence you provide). To discount Rust based on usage when the alternatives being suggested don't even make the rankings is also a bit dishonest.

In fact, the argument "I think Linux should adopt rust for safety" makes perfect sense. Here's finally a safety conscious language that seems to be embraced by a larger community, and even the big tech players. Instead we get people suggesting arcane alternatives that may be technically better, but have a snowball's chance in hell to become commonplace any time soon.

[grumblenum]

Zircon is a kernel.

[bronson]

That’s minor. It sounds like you agree with the rest of the post?