HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartmanwww.zdnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1158cross-posted to: linux@programming.devprogramming@programming.devrust@programming.dev
arrow-up1158external-link'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartmanwww.zdnet.comHaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square83fedilinkcross-posted to: linux@programming.devprogramming@programming.devrust@programming.dev
minus-squareZamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 hours ago Also, using C++ has vtable/exception overhead. No-go. That’s just nonsense. The kernel and most other big C projects are full of structs with manual re-implementations of vtables. If you don’t want exceptions (I don’t either), C++ doesn’t require you to use them. KDE software builds without them.
That’s just nonsense. The kernel and most other big C projects are full of structs with manual re-implementations of vtables.
If you don’t want exceptions (I don’t either), C++ doesn’t require you to use them. KDE software builds without them.