Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoMicrosoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030www.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down16
arrow-up167arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030www.theregister.comHal-5700X@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squareben@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·8 hours agoIt seems like the actual windows kernel isn’t that bad, it’s mainly all the stuff on top of it at this point that is killing the OS
minus-squareVindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·58 minutes agoWhich they could clean up, but it would mean killing backwards compatibility, which is arguably the only selling point of Windows.
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoand they have decades of closed drivers written for it.
It seems like the actual windows kernel isn’t that bad, it’s mainly all the stuff on top of it at this point that is killing the OS
Which they could clean up, but it would mean killing backwards compatibility, which is arguably the only selling point of Windows.
and they have decades of closed drivers written for it.