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Post #2122631
2026-05-02 16:12 UTC
As far as I can tell one of the big BeOS mistakes was having its API defined in C++.
Makes compiler updates harder than they should be, especially as C++ ABIs were far less stable back then
Replies (2)
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@cb@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-02 17:21
@never_released@mastodon.social XNU made this mistake in IOKit too
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@doctorgoktor@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 18:04
@never_released@mastodon.social it remains insane that for all the things they have shives into C++, there has been no effort to figure out the ABI evolution story