On: Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it

[marcosdumay]

> People could have spawned another kernel branch focused around Rust

Linus already decided his one will be a mixed-languages fork. You are perfectly free to fork your own C-only kernel and maintain it.

[Joel_Mckay → marcosdumay]

The hobby kernel I work on is only 68KiB in size, and won't work with most von Neumann machines. Probably a waste of time, but a fun odd architecture given the relative simplicity. =3