"LOL," was his response. "C++ solves _none_ of the C issues, and only makes things worse. It really is a crap language.

"For people who don't like C, go to a language that actually offers you something worthwhile. Like languages with memory safety and [which] can avoid some of the dangers of C, or languages that have internal GC [garbage collection] support and make memory management easier.

"C++ solves all the wrong problems, and anybody who says 'rewrite the kernel in C++' is too ignorant to even know that."

He said that when one spoke of the dangers of C, one was also speaking about part of what made C so powerful, "and allows you to implement all those low-level things efficiently".

Torvalds added: "While I think GC [garbage collection] is a wonderful thing for programming simplicity, it's generally not necessarily something you can do in a low-level system programming. So I'm not saying 'integrated GC' is good for OS kernels, but it's a very good thing in most other situations."

https://itwire.com/open-source/rust-support-in-linux-may-be-possible-by-5-14-release-torvalds.html
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