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I feel like better tooling is a safer bet. I know people hate on AI here but tooling that can detect flaws in C memory management would be basically as good as Rust itself.

Just fork it, do a complete rewrite in Rust, and call it “Runix”

More OS options is better for everyone.

That does NOT sound like a good idea.

We've turned our development model into a well-oiled engineering marvel,

Exactly, and I'm pretty sure one of the reasons is that it's remained on C, and NOT switched to C++, as has been often suggested.
The second they make it a mixed code base, that's the same second quality will deteriorate. Mixed code base is a recipe for disaster.

Edit:

Torvalds eventually responded by defending the Linux kernel development process and scolding Martin for grandstanding on social media about the issue. Martin later quit as a Linux maintainer and resigned from the Asahi Linux project.

Seems like Linus isn't onboard with this.

But I guess all the downvoters know better?

opening for a mixed code base is a recipe for disaster.

Greg Kroah-Hartman:

Yes, mixed language codebases are rough, and hard to maintain, but we are kernel developers, dammit.

That's special pleading, that lacks basis in reality. Still he admits it's rough to mix codebases.

I'm not claiming Rust wouldn't be brilliant in some situations, but the detraction of a mixed codebase is worse than the benefit.