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OSes in C++OSes in C++Posted Dec 17, 2004 20:50 UTC (Fri) by zakaelri (guest, #17928)In reply to: OSes in C++ by daniel Parent article: Quote of the week
I figured that the point of using C++ inside of the kernel would be to take the features that make the code cleaner, without using all of the advanced features that are unnecessary. Anything that has a specific reason to be nasty code (e.g. the function pointer stuff used to increase performance (above)) could keep itself that way.
Meanwhile, you can organize the kernel code better, and clean up someof the grittier parts with C++'s syntactic sugar. This would make it easier to manage in the long run, and new features could be tested and added easially.
Then again, I am not a kernel hacker, and never will be. As long as it works, I don't particulalry care what the code looks like. I can leave that up to the developers. (Furthermore, C++ isn't always faster than C... look at how slow and bulky some of the apps in KDE are... and binding to modules/object libraries is a pain, in my experience.)
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