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All software development in a team is. More like 20/80 or 40/60 if you're lucky.
Except in this case, it was a bunch of old C devs who aren't just resistant but openly hostile to change, and they'd rather bully people into silence than try to progress.
Why isn't a Rust kernel being developed in parallel ?
I mean, it is. RedoxOS is just that. But it's not Linux and that means a lot of things.
Maybe this is the fork in the road for something new. These circumstances were kind of how GNU/Linux was born, after all.
Rust for Linux used to be developed in parallel to the mainline Linux before Linus Torvalds merged support in the main tree.