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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 (www.theregister.com)
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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Will this finally be the end of Windows?

Also fun fact: Windows uses a lot of COM Interfaces for API, which in my opinion often makes developing for Windows a better experience, than developing for Linux. Rust does not have anything OOP related by default, and are often emulated with macros instead, like in C.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I work for a company developing software for Windows and deal with COM all the time. How do you communicate across dynamic libraries and languages in Linux?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Linux usually just uses C API, most of which reads horribly. Libevdev is quite notorious for using files and the docs not telling you that the reading is blocking. Some additional things use C++ classes though.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could you provide a link to the documentation? It's strange that it's so barebones.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Rust has traits and reference counting which map nicely to COM objects.

By the way, the Linux Kernel is OOP. That's a good choice for things like queues, file systems, and device drivers.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's a crazy take. I hate com and oop with a passion. If you like com that much there's gobject for you on Linux.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I hate everything GTK/GNOME, they didn't even call it gnobject.