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SubjectRe: Kernel Development & Objective-C
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:14:16PM +0000, Ben Crowhurst wrote:
> Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development?
>
> regards,
> BPC

To my recall: Never.

Some limited subset of C++ was tried, but was soon abandoned.

Overall the kernel data structures are done in objectish-manner,
although there are no strong type mechanisms being used.

Could the kernel be written in a limited subset[*] of ObjC ? Very likely.
Would it be worth the job ? Radical decrease in number of available
programmers...

*) Subset as enforcing the rule of not even indirectly using dynamic
memory allocation, when operating in interrupt state.

/Matti Aarnio
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