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Re:Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig by loeg on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:57PM (#21974442)
> The kernel, Zircon, is written entirely in C

No, it's written in C++[1]. They're very different languages.

That said, Google seems to think C++ has something to offer to all kinds of development. It seems to work for them, but they are a heavily C++ shop. I wouldn't read too much out of their use of C++ anywhere; it'd be more surprising and interesting to see them use anything else.

[1]: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/master/zircon/ker...

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Re:Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig by roblabla on Monday January 06, 2020 @06:31PM (#21974766)
Oh that's interesting. Zircon is based on LK[0] which is in C, which is why I thought it was still written in C. I wonder how much is left of the original LK code then.

[0]: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel/zx_and_lk

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Re:Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig by loeg on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:22AM (#21977458)
Interesting, I didn't know about LK. Thanks for sharing :-).
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