Re: The Case for Rust (in any system)

On 06-09-24 13:24, Jan Knepper wrote:

> Second this.
> 
> Not surprised...
> 
> I have done this as long as C++ as been around and it always made for 
> better code in the end.
> 
> Truly, this is one of the easy things that could be done with FreeBSD 
> code, and probably would help quite a bit improving the code.

This is roughly what happened with GCC.

Back in the days of GCC 2 there was a strong bias towards C (and against 
C++). That was one of the reasons for the fork and eventual take over by 
EGCS.

Sometime later, around 2008, GCC started switching to using C++ 
compilation rather than C compilation. See

https://lwn.net/Articles/542457/

A+
Paul