> Linus' comments about C over C++ in the Linux kernel For someone of his computing calibre, I found his take on C++ surprisingly... immature. He never truly j

> Linus' comments about C over C++ in the Linux kernel For someone of his computing calibre, I found his take on C++ surprisingly... immature. He never truly justifies exactly why he feels C++ is bad in his rants[0][1]; furthermore, he resorts to rather poor logic, which boils down to essentially C++ is bad because the programmers using it are bad. Perhaps when he did attempt to use it, C++ was equally as immature, and the tooling and compilers were sub-optimal, and there was no RAII, nor std::algorithm, nor any of the niceties available with C++11 (it got better still with C++20's concepts, ranges, std::format, modules, etc). I daresay that C++ is equally as precise (honestly, I'm not quite sure how to parse this in context) and perhaps even fills in the gaps where the the programmer's intention and their code diverge. [0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/249460/ https://lwn.net/Articles/249460/ [1]: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/21/04/17/009241/linus-torvalds-says-rust-closer-for-linux-kernel-development-calls-c-a-crap-language https://developers.slashdot.org/story/21/04/17/009241/linus-... For the record, I attempted Rust. While it looks nice, I am personally more partial to the by-default freedoms that C++ gives, together with judicious use of sanitisers. If not a systems language, then I default to .NET.