Because C++ is not memory safe, lifetime safe, type safe, has notoriously brittle ABIs, ...?
Seriously if you're going to take the cost of rewriting massive amounts of code, why would you not rewrite it in a language that offers actual improvements to the language that's being rewritten?
Apple already has (and uses) objective-c++, and the majority of objc I've ever interacted with is objc++ once you're outside of headers (just look for .mm extensions).
Seriously if you're going to take the cost of rewriting massive amounts of code, why would you not rewrite it in a language that offers actual improvements to the language that's being rewritten?
Apple already has (and uses) objective-c++, and the majority of objc I've ever interacted with is objc++ once you're outside of headers (just look for .mm extensions).