For better or worse Linux is NOT a microkernel. Therefore, the sound microkernel wisdom is not applicable to Linux in its present form. The "impedance match" of any new language added to the linux kernel is driven by what current kernel code in C is doing. This is essentially linux kernel limitation. If Rust cannot adapt to these requirements it is a mismatch for linux kernel development. For the other kernels like Fuchsia Rust is a good fit. BTW, core Fuchsia kernel itself is still in C++.