| ▲ | steve1977 4 hours ago | |
From here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006411 "At some stage in the future we may be able to move IOKit over to a good programming language" | ||
| ▲ | xenadu02 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
IOKit was almost done in Java; C++ was the engineering plan to stop that from happening. Remember: there was a short window of time where everyone thought Java was the future and Java support was featured heavily in some of the early OS X announcements. Also DriverKit's Objective-C model was not the same as userspace. As I recall the compiler resolved all message sends at compile time. It was much less dynamic. | ||