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Can someone steelman Linus's:

> ABSOLUTELY NO C++ in the kernel EVER. But Rust is totally fine.

stance? It seems pretty absurd when you consider the closer similarity between C and C++ (and the more straight-forward migration path from C to C++), and the fact that GCC supports C++ (even recent vintages) natively on many more architectures.



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