Speaking for myself and not the person you replied to
- It would make me 10x more likely to work on the kernel, just because I enjoy programming in rust more than I enjoy programming in C. (At least given my current employment, any kernel contributions would be on my own time)
- It would give me more faith in the security of other code people are contributing, things like binder in C strike me as pretty scary components of android from a security perspective, I'm much more comfortable running the same thing written in Rust.
- I think it would generally reduce the number of kernel bugs in components written in it. Kernel bugs are rare, but and very frustrating when you encounter them.
- I think it would increase the general productivity in kernel development. A better kernel helps everyone out.
- It acts as validation for rust as a language. Obviously the kernel people shouldn't care about this in the slightest and it's not an argument for including it. However if it is included for other reasons (see above), it does help me argue that "rust would be a good fit for x" in other situations.
- It would make me 10x more likely to work on the kernel, just because I enjoy programming in rust more than I enjoy programming in C. (At least given my current employment, any kernel contributions would be on my own time)
- It would give me more faith in the security of other code people are contributing, things like binder in C strike me as pretty scary components of android from a security perspective, I'm much more comfortable running the same thing written in Rust.
- I think it would generally reduce the number of kernel bugs in components written in it. Kernel bugs are rare, but and very frustrating when you encounter them.
- I think it would increase the general productivity in kernel development. A better kernel helps everyone out.
- It acts as validation for rust as a language. Obviously the kernel people shouldn't care about this in the slightest and it's not an argument for including it. However if it is included for other reasons (see above), it does help me argue that "rust would be a good fit for x" in other situations.