C for All - Hackdot

Re:C for All by mrpippy on Friday March 23, 2018 @04:47PM (#16662503)

Even OS X's C++ usage is kind of a historical oddity. OPENSTEP drivers were written in ObjC for an API called DriverKit, but OS X/Darwin/xnu replaced that with the C++ IOKit. The rest of the kernel is still C. I wrote a comment a few years ago explaining why I think that decision was made:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006411

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Re:C for All by pjmlp on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:48PM (#16662872)

Thanks for the hint.

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