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I still wonder why valve is that much reluctant at porting its proton stuff into the simple and plain C99 of wine/vkd3d.


Likely because their engineers are more productive in C++?

Modern C++ with move semantics is a lot more easy to reason about and memory safe than C99, IMO.

Since it's a greenfield project, they didn't have to worry about the nasty baggage of legacy C++ spaghetti that kills most projects.

Just because you prefer "simple" C99 doesn't mean they do :)


I think there is something wrong with them because they are failing to see that the c++ syntax has an abysmal complexity which propagates the toolchain implementation.

This is the only reason you need to make this language a definitive nono.

They should be ashamed of themselves, and if they are not, well, they are toxic, and they are doing it at worldwide scale.


Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Ironically, I think this comment is much more toxic than a developer writing free software in a language of their choosing.


You are right of course that c++ is abysmal. What your are overlooking is that C is an even bigger trash fire nuclear foot gun.


Then what is proton written in? C++?


wine and vkd3d are plain and simple C99.




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