Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:14:16PM +0000, Ben Crowhurst wrote:
Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development?
Doesn't objective C essentially require a runtime to provide a lot of
the features of the language? If it does (as I suspect) then it is
totally unsiatable for kernel development.
C also requires a (very minimal) runtime. And I don't see how having a
runtime disqualifies a language from being usable in a kernel; the
runtime is just one more library, either supplied by the compiler or by
the kernel.
Besides the kernel does a wonderful job doing object oriented design
where apropriate using C without any of the stupidities added by the
common OO languages
Object orientation in C leaves much to be desired; see the huge number
of void pointers and container_of()s in the kernel.
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