On 7/14/2011 4:10 PM, bearophile wrote:
An article about the problems in using C++ to write Windows drivers, "C++ for
Kernel Mode Drivers: Pros and Cons" (February 2007):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487420.aspx
The article shows why C++ is not so fit for this purpose. Is D even worse for
this purpose? If this is true then is it possible to improve D a bit for such
low level purposes? How? Even if it is possible to improve D to such
purposes, is it worth it? Such purposes after all are quite a niche, most
programmers don't need to write kernel mode drivers and similar things.
Anyway, I hope someday people will design a system language better than C and
very fit for such niche but important purposes too :-)
All that article says is you can't write Windows device drivers without being
familiar with how your compiler generates code, and how device driver code
differs from regular code, and how to adapt to those differences. This applies
to C, C++ and D.
Writing kernel code simply isn't for people who aren't willing to do this,
regardless of what language they use.
