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Artificial Ignorance @lemmy.ca

JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

1mo ago

Linux written in C++?

This description of C++ is misleading at best (C++ is used for "Air Travel"?), but saying its used to "make Linux" is just wrong.

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A very specific subset of a very specific version of C++.
Unless they went all in on the recent C standard.
- Linux kernel doesn't use C++ at all.
  Though if you widen the definition of "Linux OS" beyond the kernel then it's used in many places of course (especially KDE).
  
  What was it written in, C?
  
  I don’t think you understood the post.
  C++ was a strict superset of C for many many years. Until very recently, all C was definitionally also C++.

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