[ros-dev] win32k C++ suggestion

[Aleksey Bragin]

I always liked C++, and it was my main development language before I 
joined ReactOS. Indeed let's not rush, think/discuss through all 
possible things and then start gradually going for it for code pieces 
which are good (which means GDI first of all).

Regards,
Aleksey

On 21.02.2015 17:05, Timo Kreuzer wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'd like to propose introducing C++ to win32k. Don't worry, this is 
> not a suggestion to rewrite everything from scratch in C++, but to 
> gradually introduce C++.
> The reason is not "That's what Windows does", but the fact that 
> especially GDI would heavily benefit in terms of code simplicity, 
> clarily and quality from using C++.
> A lot of the interfaces are already in a C++ object style way, but 
> still code can bypass interfaces and directly modify structure 
> members, even if it is not supposed to be done that way.
> Unless there are strong objections, I'd post a design / style / 
> roadmap suggestion soon.
> If people feel strongly about it, we can defer this to after a 0.4.0 
> release.
>
> Regards,
> Timo