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Re:Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012) by kevindqc on Thursday December 13, 2018 @11:41AM (#18673664)
I didn't spend much time looking at it, but to me the code looks more like C than C++ lol

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/kernel/incl... https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/kernel/kern...

Even things like SpinLock, which I was expecting to use class for RAII, looks like it was implemented using C, then with a C++ wrapper: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/kernel/incl...

So to me (I'm no C/C++/Kernel/etc. expert) it looks like they are writing the kernel mostly in C, with C++ goodies sprinkled in some places, where it's useful (ie: RAII for spinlock guard)

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Re:Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012) by maxlybbert on Thursday December 13, 2018 @12:57PM (#18674406)
That’s because Google’s style guide is very restrictive.
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