Comment by npalli
4 months ago
Prediction 2030: Linus Retires and C++ accepted as the primary language for writing the kernel.
Inadvertently, Rust makes working with C++ acceptable.
4 months ago
Prediction 2030: Linus Retires and C++ accepted as the primary language for writing the kernel.
Inadvertently, Rust makes working with C++ acceptable.
You might be onto something.
Android already uses a hardware abstraction layer for Linux written in C++ to write drivers.
It's a matter of politics to get something like this into the kernel.