from Maya Posch:
One thing weighs in favour of using C++ over C and that is the increased type checking with the former, whereas the latter is decidedly weakly-typed.
That said, C is hardly the maintenance and programming nightmare that it is made out to be by many. Proper design and architecture can make life so much easier no matter which language one uses.
Naturally, if we're going to get paranoid about languages used, then I'd be in favour of using Ada. If it's good enough for avionics and ICBMs, then it's good enough for a desktop OS :)
Maya
Idea of using C++ is not so crazy. Haiku is programmed largely in C++.
C++ is more strongly typed than C. I have some familiarity with Ada, which is (I believe) more strongly typed.
I am very limited in my ability to test ReactOS because of no place to put it. Hard drives are partitioned GPT, and booting from USB stick is problematic from what I read.
Tom