This is probably the problem of the title, he obviously doesn't mean all developers. In any case, I hope articles like these help us to overcome the inertia yo

This is probably the problem of the title, he obviously doesn't mean all developers. In any case, I hope articles like these help us to overcome the inertia you mention, although, realistically, I don't think a project like the Linux (or BSD) kernel will ever be rewritten in a language different than C and* be complete enough to gain widespread use.