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I was pretty sure it was because getting people to write drivers in Objective C for DriverKit was never going to reach any mass appeal, so better make it C++ h
by scruffyherder 8y ago
I was pretty sure it was because getting people to write drivers in Objective C for DriverKit was never going to reach any mass appeal, so better make it C++
http://unix.superglobalmegacorp.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/objc/ChangeLog?rev=1.1.1.1;cvsroot=Darwin0 http://unix.superglobalmegacorp.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/objc/...
- mrpippy 8y agoYep. Everyone writing drivers for Windows/Classic MacOS/UNIX was doing it in C. And Apple wasn’t particularly confident that ObjC would appeal to even application programmers (hence the Cocoa-Java push, and the never-finished ObjC “modern” syntax)