Re: Compiling C++ modules

Avi Kivity
2006-04-28T09:34:06Z

Davi Arnaut wrote:
>>
>> Mozilla is written in C++ ? I start to better understand where the
>> 160 MB bloat comes from...
>>
>
> Evolution is written in C.
>

FWIW, userspace is moving away from C as unproductive and unsafe. KDE is
of course C++, mozilla, openoffice are C++, and gnome is moving towards
(of all things) C#.

GCC considered adopting a C++ subset. My impressions of the discussion
was that (a) a majority of the developers would like that (b) RMS would
never allow it (c) there were concerns about bootstrap on platforms
where a C++ compiler was not available.

Kernels of other operating systems (Windows, AIX (?)) allow C++. And
don't start about Windows crashing whenever you sneeze at it - it's so 1998.

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