> <i>"When I started on this project, I fully expected we would get pushback on technical grounds and I was willing to work through that under the assumption that eventually we would find consensus," explained Filho.</i><p>Managing change, is as much, if not more, nontechnical as it is technical. Technical discussions are easy, but the real difficulties will be non-technical pushback.<p>So leading this is a leadership and political role.
On the one hand, I can see how rewriting parts of the kernel in a memory-safe language would be helpful. On the other hand, are we going to rewrite the kernel with every new language that comes out?