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I think that is a bit of an overstatement given the amount of legacy code and bindings generation capabilities. I do think it had to swing towards memory safe a
by jtrueb 2y ago
I think that is a bit of an overstatement given the amount of legacy code and bindings generation capabilities. I do think it had to swing towards memory safe and C++ still didn’t have a plan for smart pointers much less move semantics when Swift dev started.
Who knows what present day Objective-C++ could have been if it had been the workhorse language of choice. Maybe this profiles thing Bjarne is pushing could have been in the roadmap. We will never know.
- pjmlp 2y agoNot at all, besides Objective-C would have been dead by now, had it not been for NeXT reverse acquisition of Apple. Additionally Objective-C++ never was seen anything beyond interop with existing C++ code, and only old timers like myself have its documentation, you will hardly find anything about it on Apple's documentation nowadays.