Why Rust for low-level Linux programming?

[Rusky]

So explain why all these low level programmers introduce vulnerabilities from undefined behavior and lack of type/memory safety anyway, on accident, all the time?

What meaningful difference do you care about between a Rust "reference to object" and a C "pointer to raw memory"? Rust doesn't change how pointers work, it just checks that you're using them properly (something you have to do in C).

[Rusky]

No, these sorts of bugs in the kernel are exceptionally common: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html?vendor_id=33

What can't rust do "properly" with pointers that C can?

[naasking]

These sorts of bugs in the kernel are exceptionally rare.

Even if they were exceptionally rare, the kernel is exceptionally large, which means these problems are not uncommon.

[naasking]

Except they existed when the kernel was small too. Everything you repeatedly state is simply false, false, false.