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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Perhaps not, but if you’re a kernel developer, I believe you are obliged to understand your build system and tooling. The fact of the languages aren’t all used at runtime seems immaterial.

That said, I am no kernel developer, so take it with a grain of salt.