[lmilcin]

Sizes of repos have nothing to do with it. By that measure we should all leave C and convert kernel to C++.

I do embedded development on ARM Cortex-M3 and while it is possible to do this in Rust, I have experienced a bunch of issues with the toolchain and I have decided to stay on C until toolchain improves.

Don't get me wrong, I like Rust. Just don't allow liking something get in the way of practicality.

[ChrisSD]

> By that measure we should all leave C and convert kernel to C++.

Microsoft actually did do that in the 90's.

[neerajsi]

No. Most of the kernel is in C. Some parts have been in very light c++ since the 2000s.

[pjmlp]

Vista changed that, as Visual C++ gained stable kernel support, it has been a couple of years now.