Re: Carbon is C++?
Re: Carbon is C++?
- Subject: Re: Carbon is C++?
- From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:54:08 -0700
On Feb 25, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote:
> i've been reading about how apple dropped their plans for Carbon 64 a
> while back,
We just had a thread about this, but basically, Carbon is not dead; only parts of it were taken out of the 64-bit frameworks.
> so if carbon is C++ then i'm surprised that apple is still
> supporting it at all?
First, Carbon might be internally implemented as C++, I don't know, but all of its exterior interfaces are in procedural C.
Second, C++ is a fine language, and is not going to be deprecated any time soon, since a lot of stuff in the OS is written in C++ or ObjC++, such as the Security and WebKit frameworks. The only problem with C++ is the ABI keeps getting broken between compilers, so you might not be able to target really old versions of the OS with newer compilers.
Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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