On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:32:49AM -0500, Michael Jones wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:30 AM <lego12...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > No-no. C++ is a nightmare. A few people want to use it. > > C++ is an extremely widespread language with millions of lines of code > written daily world wide.
C is more widespread, than C++. C++ is unneededly complex and for such core thing like a portage C would be better. C code is simpler and robust. More people know it. More people can send patches. Etc. > Lots of people want to use it. Just not people who want to write a PMS > compliant package manager. No problem. They can use it outside portage :-). -- Олег Неманов (Oleg Nemanov)