This is truly insane and it makes me glad to be in the US...for now at least. I believe at least one state is doing something similar...hope it stays confined to that one state...this is one of the most blantat privacy violations I've seen in a while.
EDIT: Great...looks like we have KOSA to worry about.
There are already 2 languages in the kernel: C and Assembly
Assembly and C share a very very close relationship. C is really just high level ASM and ASM is used as little as realistically possible in the kernel so the situation is different.
That already happened and Linus decided to accept Rust code into the kernel.
Doesn't mean you should neglect the opinion of every other maintainer. I'm not saying rust shouldn't be included here or that Linus shouldn't have the right to override his opinion. I am saying calling names as opposed to discussing his concerns is not productive. FOSS is a collaborative space and that collaboration is important even if redundant at times.
Honestly people are making a big deal out of this but I don't get it, the time for the outrage was when both AMD (2023) and Nvidia (2022) introduced frame generation into their respective upscalers. It was always gonna be downhill from there.