Comment by fennecs

They are rightfully worried about old commits? Maybe it's time they switched to a more secure language which can more easily detect malicious code. To be honest C seems critically insecure without a whole lot of work. If a bunch of experts even struggle, seems like they need better tools. Especially since Linux is so important, and there are a lot more threats, Rust seems like a good solution.

Apart from some perhaps critical unsafe stuff which should have a lot of attention, requiring everything to be safe/verified to some extent surely is the answer.