linux-kernel - Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World

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Message-ID: <CANszf4jauBAhaTogvSprhhspKywXSu_8xkWh+ETsWMMUDKo0=g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 4 Sep 2014 19:27:45 +0100
From:	Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Christopher Barry <christopher.r.barry@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de> wrote:
> Am 13.08.2014 11:00, schrieb Borislav Petkov:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:27:56AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>
>>> And the thing is; we're all very busy so we tend to take the 'easy'
>>> way out for things like this; but wholesale switching all my machines
>>> is indeed painful, and I'm not liking.
>>
>>
>> Right, I think kernel people will gladly jump on a sane solution devoid
>> of that kids-jerking-off-on-linux-desktop-just-for-the-fun-of-it
>> situation if someone would present them with one. So, if someone would
>> come up and do a sane init design without the jerking off, kernel people
>> would jump on that in a heartbeat. Someone might even start getting
>> patches from them too. ^^Hint^^ ^^hint^^.
>>
>> :-)
>
>
> Hmm, a sane and maintainable solution would use C++ with which people don't
> have to manually build lists or hashes for every structure like in the
> kernel (generic programming done right). So you won't find much kernel
> developers there. ;)
>

Seriously Dude?

Have you tried it? I was using c++ before during and after the stl was
standardised
and the memories of the resulting induced self hair pulling still
gives me the shivers.
Try writing a real time kernel with full c++ support. You have to
provide the entire c++
runtime in the kernel!

I still do a little c++ programming when i am forced to but its only
in small pieces.
Ill go crazy otherwise.


> Regards,
>
> Alexander Holler
>
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