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I think the core of the issue is expecting people to agree with stuff.

Linux is free software and there's really nobody stopping people from forking it and doing things the way they want. It used to happen all the time once upon a time, nowadays people seems to be afraid of doing it.

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The kernel is nearly 30 million lines of code. I would love to see a fork where Rust starts taking over sections of it, but that's a huge undertaking that would clearly take many years.

Yep, either people are willing to do the fork and take the challenge or they accept that nobody has to be forced to accept their opinions and contributions, good or not.

I can easily fork your project with 1k lines of code, but not Linux kernel and stay up-to-date with all the latest commits. Nobody can.

Why would a Rust for Linux fork want to stay up-to-date with all the latest commits that are in C?

If all the latest commits in C are so useful, even to a Rust fork, perhaps the Linux C devs are not off-base that Rust isn't worth it for now.

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