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Getting old, forgotten C/C++ code running can be a job. It's really a matter of how well written the make files were and if one still has the original tool chai
by mywittyname 5y ago
Getting old, forgotten C/C++ code running can be a job. It's really a matter of how well written the make files were and if one still has the original tool chain sitting around. C/++ code written for a paid, closed-source compiler can require a lot of changes to get running under something like GCC.
Not sure how Ruby's backwards compatibility is, since I don't use it, but I have to imagine it's like most other scripting languages in that getting the correct major version is all you need.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoI'm not talking about old, forgotten code. I'm saying that, every time, there is a "${old-existing-thing} in ${current-language-of-the-day}", people upvote it, start it on github, and continue using the old one, written in c/c++. A few months will go buy, and people will continue using mgba/visualboy/vbam or whatever was popular before.