Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python?

Re:Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python? by alpatters on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @11:37AM (#5293198)

> With C you can easily get better (that is, safer) than C++ native MM just building a reference counting system on top of your C "objects".

Why build your own when C++ has std::shared_ptr.

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Re:Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python? by antirez on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @11:42AM (#5293237)

I was referring about how to do it with C.

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Re:Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python? by muks on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:35PM (#5293599)

Hi antirez

C doesn't have a destructor that gets called when something goes out of scope. That's taken advantage of in C++ (RAII) to implement various things (like scoped_ptr that helps avoid leaks).

Refcounting is also not perfect for every case.

But I like and prefer C. ;) Just pointing out one thing different in C++.

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Re:Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python? by thwest on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:25PM (#5293533)

How is a C implementation of std::shared_ptr safer?

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