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scruffyherder on July 12, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The libkern C++ Runtime

I was pretty sure it was because getting people to write drivers in Objective C for DriverKit was never going to reach any mass appeal, so better make it C++

http://unix.superglobalmegacorp.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/objc/...

mrpippy on July 12, 2018 [–]

Yep. Everyone writing drivers for Windows/Classic MacOS/UNIX was doing it in C. And Apple wasn’t particularly confident that ObjC would appeal to even application programmers (hence the Cocoa-Java push, and the never-finished ObjC “modern” syntax)

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