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0 pointszozbot2343y ago0 comments

Linus Torvalds has settled that whole discussion, by rejecting C++ and subsequently adopting Rust. Even Windows is basically written in C in its lowest layers anyway, they apparently don't find C++ itself very useful.

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pjmlp3y ago

Linus Torvalds has settled that whole discussion for the Linux kernel.

Thankfully his opinion about C++ is meaningless outside Linux world.

Windows started to adopt C++ on the kernel since Vista, you can make use of Windows Implementation Library, a C++ template library for kernel, drivers and userspace code. Just gotta to love that VC++ /kernel flag.

macOS with its NeXTSTEP heritage, changed from having Objective-C drivers on kernel space to C++ drivers in kernel space.

Then if you bother to broaden your horizons beyond FOSS UNIX clones, there are enough OSes already shipping C++ on the kernel.

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