Embedded Programming with Modern C++ Cookbook

Object-oriented programming to time the code complexity

As the complexity of embedded programs grows over time, it becomes more and more difficult to manage them using the traditional procedural approach provided by the C language. If you take a look at a large C project, such as the Linux kernel, you will see that it adopts many aspects of object-oriented programming.

The Linux kernel extensively uses encapsulation, hiding implementation details and providing object interfaces using C structures.

Though it is possible to write object-oriented code in C, it is much easier and convenient to do it in C++, where a compiler does all the heavy lifting for the developers.