About using C++ for kernel drivers

[Walter Bright]

On 7/14/2011 4:10 PM, bearophile wrote:
> An article about the problems in using C++ to write Windows drivers, "C++ for
> Kernel Mode Drivers: Pros and Cons" (February 2007):
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487420.aspx
>
> The article shows why C++ is not so fit for this purpose. Is D even worse for
> this purpose? If this is true then is it possible to improve D a bit for such
> low level purposes? How? Even if it is possible to improve D to such
> purposes, is it worth it? Such purposes after all are quite a niche, most
> programmers don't need to write kernel mode drivers and similar things.
> Anyway, I hope someday people will design a system language better than C and
> very fit for such niche but important purposes too :-)


All that article says is you can't write Windows device drivers without being 
familiar with how your compiler generates code, and how device driver code 
differs from regular code, and how to adapt to those differences. This applies 
to C, C++ and D.

Writing kernel code simply isn't for people who aren't willing to do this, 
regardless of what language they use.