Christoph Hellwig, who likened the addition of another language to a cancer and said that Rust should not be “anywhere near a huge C code base that I need to maintain.”

The article misquotes Hellwig who was against making the kernel a multi language project ie C and any other language due to the complexities that may bring. Not against rust per se. Jfc. It’s like people don’t read their sources anymore.

most Rust developers

survey participants != all rust developers

In fact, there is no reason for experienced Rust developers to participate in such surveys at all. I don’t.

Hell, the way the survey results are covered (not just here) tells me that maybe we should push for it to never be done (officially) ever again.

Isn’t worrying the defining feature of rustaceans? “Memory safe!”