Starting this one with another disclaimer, I'm not a Linux kernel developer (though I have worked on kernels before) and my knowledge of Rust mainly lies in application programming. If that's a deal breaker for you, skip this one. If it's not and you want to hear yet another random …

I got asked recently why I decided to make a prototype of something in Rust, and I'm not happy with how I responded. There's a lot of reasons why I'm not happy with my answer, but the crux of the matter is that I didn't fully represent the circumstances that …