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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 zzzcpan on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:37AM (#12644139)
> to convince Linus and the majority of the core kernel developers

The biggest cost is not them, it's every other C programmer, every other company, the whole industry. It's unrealistic to even think that any significant part of them is going to invest resources into another language just to gain memory safety.

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Re:Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnera... by falcolas on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:55AM (#12644299)
I figure, if you're capable of coming up with an argument which convinces Linus to move away from C, you can use that logic to convince anybody (who is capable of being convinced by logic in the first place).
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