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If C++ had no operator overloading, and if it had no exceptions, and if the C++ standard specified name-mangling so FFI could work right, then maybe it would co

If C++ had no operator overloading, and if it had no exceptions, and if the C++ standard specified name-mangling so FFI could work right, then maybe it would come close.

pjmlp 4y ago
You are not obliged to use all of that in C++ code. And if lack of standard specified name-mangling disqualifies C++, so it also does to C, because there is no such thing as a C ABI, only OS ABIs that happen to be written in C, and the C compilers of the platform follow the OS ABI, which you can get in C++ with extern "C".
- carlmr 4y ago
  >which you can get in C++ with extern "C". True, but then you add translation layers everywhere because you used C++ in your function interface.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    Are you aware that GCC, clang and MSVC C standard library is actually written in C++?
hedora 4y ago
C++ compilers let you disable exceptions. I always do this when possible.