According to Coverity, the "defect density" of the Linux kernel is around 0.5 errors per 1000 lines of code, while the average of the analyzed open source proj

According to Coverity, the "defect density" of the Linux kernel is around 0.5 errors per 1000 lines of code, while the average of the analyzed open source projects is around 0.7. Best among the analyzed projects is Python (the language/stdlib I guess) with an error rate of 0.08.