On: The libkern C++ Runtime

[gigatexal]

They took out templates, inheritance, exceptions? What’s left to make it not just C?

[BlackFingolfin → gigatexal]

Plenty: classes (including constructors/destructors, virtual methods, etc.), operator overloading, patterns like RAII, ...

[pjmlp → BlackFingolfin]

Stronger type safety, fewer implicit conversions.

[masklinn → pjmlp]

> fewer implicit conversions.

Surely C++ has way more implicit conversions than C, what with having all of C's and ctors defaulting to converting?

[pjmlp → masklinn]

Only if developers are too lazy to use explicit.

I was referring to C implicit conversions that aren't valid in C++ code, like void* to other pointer types.