On Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 16:22:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
As an intellectual exercise, D's safety would help but at this
point impart little advantage; the kernel has reached good
stability and safety bugs are few and far across. This trend is
likely for the foreseeable future.
It would not be unreasonable to write new code in D. It's not as
though safety is the only advantage that D brings to the table.
This would have to be a fork, and wouldn't likely be of much
interest to most Linux users/developers, but maybe there is room
to optimize the kernel for a specific application that is also
written in D. Using D rather than C would greatly reduce the cost
of getting into kernel development.
