I have been a full time Free Software developer since the 90’s. I worked on the Linux Kernel, where I wrote ipchains, iptables, and rewrote the module subsystem, along with many other things. I changed careers in 2015 to work on Bitcoin full time, and was the first person to implement Lightning: I then chaired the…
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With the imminent release of gcc 4.8, GCC has finally switched to C++ as the implementation language. As usual, LWN has excellent coverage. Those with long memories will remember Linux trying to use g++ back in 1992 and retreating in horror at the larger, slower code. The main benefit was stricter typechecking…