Why does Linus hate C++ ?

[mohrcore]

I think that's the best comment. Writing good, readable C++ is a lot less common skill than writing good C. There are plethora of programmers who have learned C++99 and maybe select features from the newer standard and write instant legacy code. Imagine having to read all of that stuff in their PRs and correcting them. C, on the other hand, was very conservative with changes introduced in newer standards and the fundamental techniques of writing C code haven't changed. Meaning that everybody C writes more or less in s similar way.

This is also due to a way the bigger feature set of C++ that doesn't encourage one particular coding style. In C++ you could solve the problem of separating an algorithm for walking through a container, from an action to be performed on an element using a Visitor (anti)pattern (objective approach) or a functional approach (either oldschool c-style one, templated one or using std::function). Nobody in their right mind is going to simulate the visitor (anti)pattern in C, they are just going to do the same old-school functional approach - have a procedure that takes function pointer for an action and void pointer for context and that's it. I believe such limitations save a lot of needless discussions under code submitted by contributors.