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Re:The libkern C++ Runtime by scruffyherder on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @11:41PM (#17512006)
I was pretty sure it was because getting people to write drivers in Objective C for DriverKit was never going to reach any mass appeal, so better make it C++

http://unix.superglobalmegacorp.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/objc/...

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Re:The libkern C++ Runtime by mrpippy on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:22AM (#17512171)
Yep. Everyone writing drivers for Windows/Classic MacOS/UNIX was doing it in C. And Apple wasn’t particularly confident that ObjC would appeal to even application programmers (hence the Cocoa-Java push, and the never-finished ObjC “modern” syntax)
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