This description of C++ is misleading at best (C++ is used for “Air Travel”?), but saying its used to “make Linux” is just wrong.
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A very specific subset of a very specific version of C++.
Unless they went all in on the recent C standard.
Linux kernel doesn’t use C++ at all.
Though if you widen the definition of “Linux OS” beyond the kernel then it’s used in many places of course (especially KDE).
What was it written in, C?
Yes, C with many GCC extensions.
Thanks! Is it like 100% Rust now? Or am I totally wrong here.
Not, there is very little Rust in the kernel. It’s still WIP and there no real world Rust drivers in the mainline repo yet. It will probably change “soon”, but even then Linux will remain 99% C for the foreseeable future. You can’t just rewrite something like that in Rust.
Thanks for the explanation!
I don’t think you understood the post.
C++ was a strict superset of C for many many years. Until very recently, all C was definitionally also C++.
