On: Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C

[tayo42]

Why is c++ necessary? Shouldn't any programing language be able to do the same things. Maybe with different amounts of code

[Koshkin → tayo42]

Sure, as my prof once noted, "Why, with the assembler you just need to type more!"

[microtherion → Koshkin]

You must have had one of those progressive professors who did not consider assemblers "a waste of a valuable scientific computing instrument [...] to do clerical work": http://worrydream.com/dbx/

[reasonabl_human → microtherion]

I love historical anecdotes like this. Goes to show that we should always be questioning our status quo and thinking bigger.

[josefx → tayo42]

Please write a JavaScript program that will not deploy to your production system if you accidentally pass a string to any function that expects an integer.

[cprecioso → josefx]

So… typescript?

[mhh__ → tayo42]

Because it's better.

Simple question, simple answer. Using C is purely an act of risk-aversion, contrarianism, and fashion.