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> No, they were developed by open source Linux guys that only care about C in what concerns compiled languages. > C++ was always badly received by the Linux community, in contrast with commercial UNIXes.

You mean like KDE, Firefox, OpenOffice, OpenCV, VLC, bitcoin... heck even gparted is a C++ app.

The kernel developers obviously have a bias against C++ (and they'd argue that it is a justified bias). User space is a different land.

> Yes, nothing like contributing to have more insecure servers around.

? Not sure your point here...

> I surely got your point, but it is not about Darwin of languages, rather of developers.

> I surely got your point, but it is not about Darwin of languages, rather of developers.

My point was about Darwinian forces applied to language or developers.

I was responding to your point about OS vendors not being left around. It would appear that, for whatever reason, going with something other than C or C++ for your base OS doesn't seem to result in good survival odds.




>> No, they were developed by open source Linux guys that only care about C in what concerns compiled languages. > C++ was always badly received by the Linux community, in contrast with commercial UNIXes.

>You mean like KDE, Firefox, OpenOffice, OpenCV, VLC, bitcoin... heck even gparted is a C++ app.

>The kernel developers obviously have a bias against C++ (and they'd argue that it is a justified bias). User space is a different land.

I use Linux since 1995, and was for some time a Gtkmm contributor in the early days.

I know how it feels to be a C++ developer in Linux land.


> I use Linux since 1995, and was for some time a Gtkmm contributor in the early days. > I know how it feels to be a C++ developer in Linux land.

The GNOME crowd was self selected to be a bunch of "C not C++" bigots. The KDE community was quite different (even if MOQ is an abomination ;-). The only community I can think of that would be more hostile to C++ is the kernel devs.

I don't think your experiences are accurately reflective of the larger community. Particularly as C++ has improved (really, pre-gcc 3.0 there wasn't a good C++ compiler, and pre-2000 hardly anybody understood RAII, so C++ was kind of a pain), the larger community's attitude has changed. You can see this reflected in the success of the Boost project.


Coming from Turbo Pascal background I tend to be very critic of unsafe by design nature of C and C++. Specially given my focus in compiler design during the university, which allowed me to have a broad focus and experience in many languages, the average HN crowd might not be aware of.

Having said this, I was already coding in C++ in MS-DOS around 1993 (Turbo C++) and only used plain C when forced to do so.

So I have been part of the C++ community since the early PC compilers were available, and experienced this C vs C++ for quite some years now.

The funny part is remember the performance complaints back then about C and C++, that nowadays people state in HN about languages trying to replace them.

Oh, and I really like Boost.




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