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Re:Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python? by axylone on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:10PM (#5293836)
Sure, but then you can't use the standard library or any other libraries. Even a single exception sneaking into the codebase breaks everything.
Re:Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python? by berkut on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:28PM (#5293932)
We did - loads of Qt and std:: stuff - admittedly we used a custom memory allocator for the std:: stuff, but it worked fine.