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> one NeXT veteran on the forums who felt this was nonsense, and recalled writing device drivers in ObjC So did I. https://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Develope
by mpweiher 6y ago
> one NeXT veteran on the forums who felt this was nonsense, and recalled writing device drivers in ObjC
So did I.
https://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Developer_Documentation/OperatingSystem/Part3_DriverKit/Concepts/1_Overview/Overview.htmld/ https://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Developer_Documentation/O...
It was quite lovely, and I later heard from Apple kernel devs that moving to C++ from Objective-C was one of their biggest regrets.
- pjmlp 6y agoApparently they did not regret enough, because DriverKit was the opportunity to reboot that decision, and it was decided to still be C++ only.