Thank you for the long list of examples. I think some of them are a little fringe and fall outside the scope of my argument (eg. Sun literally "toying" with Jav

Thank you for the long list of examples. I think some of them are a little fringe and fall outside the scope of my argument (eg. Sun literally "toying" with Java device drivers, or Microsoft compiling their C code with a C++ compiler), and you haven't refuted my point that the kernels of the most popular systems are still written in C for the most part. Listing endless reams of discontinued research systems (eg. Singularity and Midori) isn't reinforcing your point. Redox (Rust) and Zircon (C++) are more what I'm alluding to. However Redox AFAIK doesn't even have USB drivers yet and Fuschia is even less useful in its current state. These systems have to be available, and I venture, usable, in order to be able to displace eg. Linux which is already both of those things. I'm hopeful we can see more progress in the next few years on some of these. It's nice to see some serious attempts in this space, however with the current pervasiveness of and dependencies on C at so many layers of these systems, I suspect it is really going to take much longer than hoped.