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    [–] [email protected] 84 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    According 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.

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah but a lot of that C code has inline assembly so it's more like 5-10% asm.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Inline assembly is such a shit practice. But c++ bad.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Sometimes you can't get around it though.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    Afaik MSVC forbids it and it’s one of the very few nice things about c++ on windows.

    If you need to write assembly don’t fucking do it in a cpp file. Create a header, an assembly file, assemble it and link to it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    No VB6 either 🤷‍♂️

    How can one write a kernel without using VB6 at all?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, indeed, why not 🤔...