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Then why doesn't somebody clue in Adobe, Ableton, Epic Games, Pixar, Valve, Google etc and get them to abandon their wicked C++-loving ways? If what you say is
by cageface 15y ago
Then why doesn't somebody clue in Adobe, Ableton, Epic Games, Pixar, Valve, Google etc and get them to abandon their wicked C++-loving ways? If what you say is true in general then you could save a lot of the brightest engineers in the world a lot of headache.
- gte910h 15y agoThe reason why games are written in C++ is because the gaming industry was sold on the idea in the mid 90's and now all the tools are written in it. For low level systems work, C++ can be considerably more difficult than C to organize and port large programs. It isn't "C++ is always worse than C" it is "C is often better than C++ for a given task, depending on task"
- aidenn0 15y agoAlso, win32 is a C++ project. There are significant advantages to writing in the same language as the underlying platform.