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Date:      Sun, 08 Sep 2024 21:11:29 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, Kristof Provost <kp@freebsd.org>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, Dmitry Salychev <dsl@freebsd.org>, Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: The Case for Rust (in any system)
Message-ID:  <202409082111.488LBTtI074660@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Warner Losh writes:

> I did C++ in the kernel in the 4.x->7-current time frame.

The logical progression of C++ adoption would start with using a C++
compiler as a better C compiler.

Even if we never allow a single thing from C++ to be used, that is
still an improvement in terms of warnings and errors.

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