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Re:Sortix: small self-hosting OS aiming to be a clean, moder... by metalliqaz on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:10PM (#16504144)
From the link:

    Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++
    programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
lol, thanks for that
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Re:Sortix: small self-hosting OS aiming to be a clean, moder... by renox on Friday March 02, 2018 @06:26PM (#16506698)
Unfortunately I think that this statement has some truth in it: I work in telecoms where we care about realtime: I was used to work in C but my latest project is in C++, I was curious about how C++ and realtime mix: the answer is quite poorly..

It's not that you can't do realtime in C++: it's that you have to fight against lots of C++ developers who want to apply the non-realtime C++ popular idioms.

For example: using interface classes for mocking objects with googletest, the result: virtual methods everywhere..

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