alt Hacker News> Any established C codebase
Anecdotally, GCC and GDB successfully (and incrementally) switched to C++ form C in the recent past.
The Linux kernel will never do it for ideological reasons of course.
I don't know about Postgres.
> Any established C codebase
Anecdotally, GCC and GDB successfully (and incrementally) switched to C++ form C in the recent past.
The Linux kernel will never do it for ideological reasons of course.
I don't know about Postgres.
> > Any established C codebase, for example the kernel or Postgres?
> Obviously you mean the Linux kernel, specifically.
Or any BSD, or Illumos, or Solaris, or any Unix-derived kernel, or... Even the Windows kernel is in C (or a very cut-down C++).