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According to Linus, programmers who prefer C++ are so bad that he would have chosen C solely to avoid dealing with their "total and utter crap" code, and C++ is
by 0xcde4c3db 9y ago
According to Linus, programmers who prefer C++ are so bad that he would have chosen C solely to avoid dealing with their "total and utter crap" code, and C++ is only good for kernel development if you limit yourself to a C-like subset anyway [1].
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/249460/ https://lwn.net/Articles/249460/
- pjmlp 9y agoThe same Linus that now uses Qt and C++ for his diving application.....
- user5994461 9y agoThere are C++ mechanisms that do not work well in the kernel context. Like any implicit memory allocation or exceptions. Linus is not entirely crazy. The Windows kernel SDK only supported C++ in the last decade and it has a lot of limitations.