[steveklabnik]

We have concrete data on this at this point, and it’s just not true that, even in these sorts of low level programs, everything ends up unsafe.

And beyond that, rust has many features that are useful separate from memory safety.

https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/ being just one example.

That said I have no opinion if they should write this driver in Rust or not, I simply do not know about the details. But in general, “it’s too low level and so tons of unsafe and so therefore Rust is useless” is at least arguable, if not just fully incorrect, as a general point.