On Sunday, 28 April 2013 at 23:11:30 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
On Sunday, 28 April 2013 at 12:01:58 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
True, but only now the major OS vendors are switching from C
to C++ as their main systems programming language.
Curious, which ones are you referring to?
Windows uses C for the kernel, for many reasons, one of which
is that C (unlike C++) discourages storing large objects on the
stack.
Linux uses C for the kernel too, mainly because Walter hates
C++ (and C++ programmers).
Which vendors have switched to C++ for systems programming?
BeOS/Haiku - C++
Symbian - C++
MacOS X - Device Drivers are written in a C++ subset (IOKit)
z/OS - Original code was Modula-2/Assembly, with new code being
C++
Windows - WinRT is C++, C is considered legacy, Herb Sutter
stated at BUILD 2012 that Windows team is making kernel code C++
compatible. I can search for the exact minute in the videos if
you wish.
