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A motivated group of Rust developers could build a production ready mostly Linux-compatible kernel from scratch within 5 years without doing any politics on LKML
Passionate 3-4 person hobby OSes have achieved impressive levels of Linux compatibility very quickly. Pour the level of enthusiasm that Rust-in-Linux has into a greenfield project to build a Linux-compatible kernel and you would have astonishing gains very quickly.
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