On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > I've spent the past few months working on C++ integration for QEMU. I'm > > more > > convinced than ever that we desperately in need of structured object > > oriented > > mechanisms to be successful but am pretty strongly convinced that > > incremental > > additional of C++ is not going to be successful. > > Agree. I doubt switching to C++ will fly. But using glib has pretty > good chances to be a big success long-term. >
Why is everyone so pessimistic on switching to C++? Anthony: considering that you have direct experience on trying to do this, why are you convinced it is not going to work? I am asking because I have always found the glib GObject stuff a little ugly compared to well written C++ code (of course you can write ugly code in any language if you want to).
