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A comment on Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. Parent comment

Re:Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnera... by zigzigzag on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:40AM (#12642372)
I don't know about that - very little software is written in C these days. Even parts of the Windows and Mac kernels are written in at least C++ and Microsoft had an entire OS written in C# internally. Meanwhile the games industry has been C++ since forever (which still isn't great but better than C) and most business and web software is written in GCd languages.

BTW the kernel is full of reference counts.

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Re:Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnera... by johncolanduoni on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:18AM (#12642531)
> BTW the kernel is full of reference counts.

I think the OP is pointing to languages like Swift/Objective-C where reference counts are used even if you don't really need them, not that ever reference counting anything is a lazy abstraction.

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