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1. sylware ◴[11 Oct 24 08:10 UTC] No.41807359[source]▶

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

2. aleden ◴[11 Oct 24 08:58 UTC] No.41807662[source]▶

Then what is proton written in? C++?

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3. sylware ◴[11 Oct 24 12:02 UTC] No.41808732[source]▶

wine and vkd3d are plain and simple C99.

4. seabrookmx ◴[11 Oct 24 15:43 UTC] No.41810482[source]▶

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 :)

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5. sylware ◴[11 Oct 24 19:57 UTC] No.41813050[source]▶

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6. seabrookmx ◴[11 Oct 24 21:07 UTC] No.41813754{3}[source]▶

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

7. rowanG077 ◴[11 Oct 24 22:39 UTC] No.41814557{3}[source]▶

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.

8. dang ◴[12 Oct 24 19:07 UTC] No.41821561{3}[source]▶

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