[janice1999]

> I'm skeptical that this is better than starting to rewrite the kernel in Rust.

I recently migrated a complex cross platform C99 embedded project to C++17. We got the build systems ported in a day and are able to chip away at it piece by piece.

We looked at Rust but the main issue wasn't technical it was the large learning curve for the team. Rust is not as intuitive to C developers are C++ is.