Bryan is a hardcore C guy, and can write safe and reliable C code. But he has reached the limits of what C can offer in terms of composability and abstraction.
Like Linus, he wants and needs the kind of high performance and dependable behavior for systems programming that isn't possible with a garbage-collected language.
I think Bryan Cantrill's talk from 2018 encapsulates things pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU
Bryan is a hardcore C guy, and can write safe and reliable C code. But he has reached the limits of what C can offer in terms of composability and abstraction.
Like Linus, he wants and needs the kind of high performance and dependable behavior for systems programming that isn't possible with a garbage-collected language.