[bitwize]

We, the global community of software developers, are in the process of putting C out to pasture, with Rust as the de facto front runner as a successor. At this point it becomes a question of either admitting Rust into the kernel or, eventually, using another kernel written in Rust.

[moldavi]

The same thing was loudly proclaimed about both C++ and Java, yet C is still here.

[bitwize]

C++ was hampered by the same safety problems C was. And Java had a VM and GC, which cripple performance and determinism. Rust solves both those issues.