Linux Kernel in D?

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

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.