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> would limit the attractiveness of the project to C++ programmers that enjoy modern C++ As Linus wrote when someone told him on the mailing lists that Git sho
by semi-extrinsic 10y ago
> would limit the attractiveness of the project to C++ programmers that enjoy modern C++
As Linus wrote when someone told him on the mailing lists that Git should've be done in C++
"""
Quite frankly, even if
the choice of C were to do nothing but keep the C++ programmers out,
that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
"""
- pjmlp 10y agoYet he had to move to Qt for Substrate due to issues with Gtk.
- inDigiNeous 10y agoWell, Linus is a great C -programmer, so that's something he knows well and likes to protect and embrace.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoSounds like a bitter old fossil. My first look at Linux, there were 200 sound-card drivers in the source base. Mostly identical except for the layout of bits in the control register. Any change to the api or conventions, 200 files had to be edited. An ideal place to refactor as a 'sound card' base class and derive classes to handle the (miniscule) differences. "Keeping new ideas away" is a good working definition of an old coot.
- st3fan 10y agoYou don't necessarily need C++ to implement a good driver design with base classes and minimal code duplication. It is perfectly possible in C.
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