Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:37:50 +0200 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C |
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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.
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