I thought more modern languages could be more secure, as they tended to have better overflow protections and so on. So should kernels, but I guess this would be

I thought more modern languages could be more secure, as they tended to have better overflow protections and so on. So should kernels, but I guess this would be one way to ease features into the kernel (which might be seen as a bad thing). The short answer will be, it depends on how it's done, and what the scope is. You wouldn't want arbitrary code loaded in.