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> Only if you are speaking about UNIX clones. I wrote "operating systems today are mainly C based" and that's true. Also WinNT/ReactOS was inspired mainly by

by frik 12y ago

> Only if you are speaking about UNIX clones. I wrote "operating systems today are mainly C based" and that's true. Also WinNT/ReactOS was inspired mainly by VMS and OS/2. I am well aware that many other OS exist. > DirectX is COM and most new WinAPI since Vista are also COM Fundamentally DirectX and the (post Win95a) shell is COM-based API, and while COM may look on the surface as if it is C++ based, it's actually not - a COM interface isn't a class, it's a struct, and full C compatibility exists (COM as-designed is intended to be language-neutral). And major parts were coded in C. I suggest checking out the Wikipedia article on COM for further info. Coding against COM from C may not be as simple as from C++, but that doesn't matter. dotNet and their new WinRunTime are also COM-based. Sure, it's clear that MS is using C++ nowadays and nothing is wrong with that. The real question is what the future of C#? Will it be 'replaced' by a new language similar to Swift and Rust? Or maybe it will get a static compilation option similar to Go-lang that contains the GS and parts of the framework in the executable. Microsoft has little C# based software on the client side - due to the massive setback and fail of the original "Longhorn" where the new C# based Explorer and WinFS beta1 were way too slow. Nowadays C# based server side product development is mainly done by MS India (e.g. SharePoint). So as it seems they are back to native WinRT (COM based) and HTML5. > Rust is nice, but [...] The only ones that stayed around have had OS vendors support Dogfooding is important and Rust is already used in the Mozilla Servo project, a new web engine. One can imagine that a future FirefoxOS will be based on it as well (replacing the C++ based Gecko engine), as it already uses no legacy XUL GUI code. And there are Rust based experimental operating systems like from "Julia Evans": http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/03/12/the-rust-os-story/ http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/03/12/the-rust-os-story/

pjmlp 12y ago
> I suggest checking out the Wikipedia article on COM for further info. I know COM since it was called OLE and promoted as an DDE evolution. Developing software since 1986. > Or maybe it will get a static compilation option similar to Go-lang that contains the GS and parts of the framework in the executable. It already has that since Singularity, via Bartok, which was adopted into Windows Phone 8 via MDIL, which produces native binaries with dynamic linking. http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and-Peter-Sollich-Inside-Compiler-in-the-Cloud-and-MDIL http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and... Static linking Go style is coming with .NET Native. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx

by frik 12y ago

pjmlp 12y ago

> I suggest checking out the Wikipedia article on COM for further info. I know COM since it was called OLE and promoted as an DDE evolution. Developing software since 1986. > Or maybe it will get a static compilation option similar to Go-lang that contains the GS and parts of the framework in the executable. It already has that since Singularity, via Bartok, which was adopted into Windows Phone 8 via MDIL, which produces native binaries with dynamic linking. http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and-Peter-Sollich-Inside-Compiler-in-the-Cloud-and-MDIL http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and... Static linking Go style is coming with .NET Native. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx