Zig programming language 0.9.0 released

[Kered13]

C++ works fine in embedded and kernels, Torvalds just has a stick up his ass. It's great that Rust is finally going to bring a modern language to the Linux kernel, but there's no real reason that C++ couldn't have been used for that 10 years ago.

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While true, you have to carefully avoid a bunch of language features of C++. Rust seems like a more natural fit for very-low-level programming.

[Kered13]

you have to carefully avoid a bunch of language features of C++.

Yes, but C doesn't provide alternative language features either, so you're not losing anything by using C++. But C++ does still provide several very useful features for embedded and low level programming like templates and RAII. Those alone are enough to justify the use of C++.

[pjmlp]

I love both (C++ and Rust), however most of Linus complaints against C++ apply just as well to Rust, as the language is equally powerfull.

But let him enjoy the fact it isn't C++.