At the beginning, C was a handy language with some traps and pitfalls. Thanks to standardization committees and insane optimizers, it has become a minefield of

At the beginning, C was a handy language with some traps and pitfalls. Thanks to standardization committees and insane optimizers, it has become a minefield of undefined behaviors and security issues. Linux is coded in C because of the "C is the desert island language". This should change and I dream to see something that will replace C at least in the kernel.