It was considerably less foolish then, then now. It's not even close. The complexity of the operating system kernels has more then increased 50x over the last 34 years. It's not even remotely comparable.
No one wants to replace substantial parts of the linux project with Rust. This is a straw man, and the same bad faith argument the set in their ways kernel greybeards are making. People just want to be able to write green field drivers in Rust.
No one wants to replace substantial parts of the linux project with Rust. This is a straw man, and the same bad faith argument the set in their ways kernel greybeards are making. People just want to be able to write green field drivers in Rust.