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Why a major OS would need to be "picking up Rust as a first class citizen"? What does that even mean? So far no major OS has picked C++, Java or any other lang

by vardump 10y ago

Why a major OS would need to be "picking up Rust as a first class citizen"? What does that even mean? So far no major OS has picked C++, Java or any other language than C as a first class citizen either. All of the OS related loadable library APIs are still C. Doesn't seem to slow down any of those languages, though.

kbenson 10y ago
> So far no major OS has picked C++ For the sake of clarity, Windows is supposed to be written in C and C++ (the kernel in C, the rest in C++).
- favorited 10y ago
  Also, the open-source XNU kernel (OS X & Darwin) has both C and C++ components.