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I think a significant factor in this is that C++ simply has better abstractions for building large codebases than C does. Any big enough C project is gonna turn
by senkora 4y ago
I think a significant factor in this is that C++ simply has better abstractions for building large codebases than C does. Any big enough C project is gonna turn out a bit funky.
- mhh__ 4y agoFor quite a long time now I have said that the future for the Linux kernel could easily be C++ rather than rust. Rust is very cool and have no issue with it in the kernel tree but C++ would prevent so many bugs and eliminate so many lines of code. It's just ego.
- mdaniel 4y ago> C++ would prevent so many bugs https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/search/label/Stable%20updates https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/search/label/Stable%20... and control-f for "High CVE" This from the company with arguably the best security researchers on Earth, and probably unholy amounts of internal fuzzing and static analysis tooling
- mhh__ 4y agoNote that the baseline is C not C++ used badly.