[minkles]

I think the nature of the problem is the other way around. This is not harming the long-term viability of Linux. It is harming the long-term viability of Rust. As a systems programming language, the promise of which was using it to write secure kernel and system code, not being accepted into a mainstream OS kernel on either technical or political merit is a death sentence.

Both perspectives need to be tested against each other, carefully.