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What's the point of refactoring C++ to C? That sounds weird and regressive.
by proxyon 3y ago
What's the point of refactoring C++ to C? That sounds weird and regressive.
- gyrovorbis 3y agoThere are a few niche reasons. The entire GNOME/GTk stack benefits greatly in the realm of language interop from being C at its core. This is why it easily has bindings to every language ever.
- acuozzo 3y agoNo C++ compiler for the target architecture?
- JohnFen 3y agoFor subtle technical reasons relating to the toolchain, it's not possible to use C++ for this platform. Well, it is possible, but it would easily take four times the amount of time it would take to port the C++ code to C. So porting makes the most sense.