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Re:Linus vs C++, again by xpaulbettsx on Friday June 11, 2010 @12:07AM (#1422745)
Let's put it this way without any subjectivity: every production kernel that you folks use every day is written in C. NT is, Solaris is, Darwin is, and Linux is.

Not one production-level kernel that is in wide use as a general-purpose operating system uses C++. I don't believe that to be a coincidence.

(Nitpicker's corner: Darwin's device tree subsystem is written in Embedded C++, an extremely cut-down version of C++ that's more like "C with classes" than C++).

Re:Linus vs C++, again by shin_lao on Friday June 11, 2010 @01:31PM (#1424024)
That's perhaps because all these kernels were written before C++ exists? The first C++ standard is from 1998, and stable STL/C++ support is even more recent.

FYI : in NT many device drivers are written in C++