Re:Brian's Rules for Writing Cross Platform 'C' Code (2008)
by brianwski on Monday June 16, 2014 @10:06PM
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Author here (late to the discussion):
> He also basically ignored Macintosh and ObjectiveC
At Backblaze (my company) we write all lower level common libraries in 'C' and C++ so like a cross platform HashTable, and file I/O functions. It turns out ObjectiveC on the Macintosh is a PERFECT SUPERSET of 'C' and C++ so luckily all the Objective C code can call into our OpenSSL for encryption and can call into our base libraries for File I/O.
> He also basically ignored Macintosh and ObjectiveC
At Backblaze (my company) we write all lower level common libraries in 'C' and C++ so like a cross platform HashTable, and file I/O functions. It turns out ObjectiveC on the Macintosh is a PERFECT SUPERSET of 'C' and C++ so luckily all the Objective C code can call into our OpenSSL for encryption and can call into our base libraries for File I/O.