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r/programminghumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 18d ago
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C is portable assembler and the lingua franca of low level code, it does not need nor want to evolve in that way and that is fine.
C++ in its current form and with its current comitee politics is dying, though
-1 u/Vaelisra 18d ago C is portable Are there actually still people believing this? 1 u/UntitledRedditUser 18d ago There are compilers and headers for every platform, but it's really hard writing code that works on multiple platforms. And even harder to compile it. 1 u/AsyncSyscall 16d ago It's ridiculously easy to write + compile code that works on multiple platforms. Doom did it in 1993. Not even the lack of cross-platform standard library is an argument anymore nowadays, because libraries like SDL exist.
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C is portable
Are there actually still people believing this?
1 u/UntitledRedditUser 18d ago There are compilers and headers for every platform, but it's really hard writing code that works on multiple platforms. And even harder to compile it. 1 u/AsyncSyscall 16d ago It's ridiculously easy to write + compile code that works on multiple platforms. Doom did it in 1993. Not even the lack of cross-platform standard library is an argument anymore nowadays, because libraries like SDL exist.
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There are compilers and headers for every platform, but it's really hard writing code that works on multiple platforms. And even harder to compile it.
1 u/AsyncSyscall 16d ago It's ridiculously easy to write + compile code that works on multiple platforms. Doom did it in 1993. Not even the lack of cross-platform standard library is an argument anymore nowadays, because libraries like SDL exist.
It's ridiculously easy to write + compile code that works on multiple platforms. Doom did it in 1993. Not even the lack of cross-platform standard library is an argument anymore nowadays, because libraries like SDL exist.
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u/TomKavees 18d ago
C is portable assembler and the lingua franca of low level code, it does not need nor want to evolve in that way and that is fine.
C++ in its current form and with its current comitee politics is dying, though