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The day I learned that Linus shares my disdain for all things OOP was such a good day for me.
Is there some lore about this I don’t know?
There is no C++ allowed in the Linux kernel and Linus has gone on several major rants about how terrible a language it is.
Is it all C?
According to the github analysis, the kernel repository is:
- C 98.3%
- Assembly 0.7%
- Shell 0.4%
- Makefile 0.2%
- Python 0.2%
- Perl 0.1%
- Other 0.1%
So yeah, its basically all C, plus a tiny bit of assembly for very low level bootstrapping and some helper scripts.
There’s assembly and makefiles too
Less of a joke answer, there has been work to allow Rust bindings for drivers.
Linus is a C advocate btw, which make him even more goated
