[kalekold]

> I'm pretty sure Torvalds is the one who decided to add Rust to the Linux kernel.

No it really wasn't. He just said let's see how it goes when the rust devs proposed it.

[dmm]

Torvalds likes Rust and believes it to be the future. He is disappointed that it hasn't been adopted faster.

> I actually was hoping that we'd get some of the first rust infrastructure, and the multi-gen LRU VM, but neither of them happened this time around.

https://lwn.net/Articles/904681/

[kalekold]

Torvalds is ambivalent to rust he just wanted to see if it worked out.

If we're appealing to authority here's his response a few weeks after the mail you posted:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/1105#1105.php