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Not lead designer :) But yes, Rust, or even in userspace, as newer and/or more microkernel-ish OS's allow for. Apple is doing work to allow drivers to be writt

Not lead designer :) But yes, Rust, or even in userspace, as newer and/or more microkernel-ish OS's allow for. Apple is doing work to allow drivers to be written in Swift...

saagarjha 7y ago
I believe DriverKit is still C++.
- mpweiher 7y ago
  ...and of course pre-Apple, DriverKit was Objective-C.
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    And pre-OS X, Mac OS was Object Pascal. :)
- pjmlp 7y ago
  Just some parts of it. Some device classes (not to mix with OOP ones) can only be programmed with C++, while others can be developed in any compiled language able to link to the OS APIs. There is a WWDC session on it.
  - saagarjha 7y ago
    I watched it, and they're pretty clear that driver extensions (using DriverKit, like I mentioned) must be written in C or C++. System extensions can use any language.
    - pjmlp 7y ago
      I was thinking about whole driver feature set, so got it wrong.