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> I kind of doubt the Linux maintainers would want to introduce a third language to the codebase.

That was where my argument was supposed to go. Especially a third language whose benefits over C are close enough to Rust's benefits over C.

I can picture an alternate universe where we'd have C and Zig in the kernel, then it would be really hard to argue for Rust inclusion.

(However, to be fair, the Linux kernel has more than C and Rust, depending on how you count, there are quite a few more languages used in various roles.)