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minus-squareBartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThere is no C++ allowed in the Linux kernel and Linus has gone on several major rants about how terrible a language it is.
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThere’s assembly and makefiles too Less of a joke answer, there has been work to allow Rust bindings for drivers.
minus-squareBartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoAccording 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 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?
There’s assembly and makefiles too
Less of a joke answer, there has been work to allow Rust bindings for drivers.
According to the github analysis, the kernel repository is:
So yeah, its basically all C, plus a tiny bit of assembly for very low level bootstrapping and some helper scripts.