Tbh, today I'm kinda glad that BeOS hadn't "won". Using C++ for operating system APIs wasn't a great idea in hindsight, and even though BeOS' usage of C++ is qu

Tbh, today I'm kinda glad that BeOS hadn't "won". Using C++ for operating system APIs wasn't a great idea in hindsight, and even though BeOS' usage of C++ is quite sane it is unclear whether they would have resisted the pressure to move to 'modern' C++ with all its design warts. Or in an alternative universe, maybe if Apple had bought BeOS, C++ might have developed into a different direction and look very different from the modern C++ in our universe.