• ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Vtable equivalents are used extensively in the kernel

    You’ll find structs all over the place setting them up, e.g. every driver sets up a .probe function that the core will call, since it doesn’t know what driver it’s loading

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      7 months ago

      Right the issue was more because they’re so easy to throw in without thinking about it so people overuse them. That may just be older devs complaining about newbies though.