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How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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1371 points yett | 1 comments | 23 Apr 25 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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db48x ◴[23 Apr 25 14:32 UTC] No.43772686[source]▶
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delfaras ◴[23 Apr 25 14:53 UTC] No.43772908[source]▶
funnily enough, there was an infamous bug in GTA5 for a long time that was related to using JSON : https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...
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1. db48x ◴[23 Apr 25 15:24 UTC] No.43773231[source]▶
I remember that one too :)

They wrote a JSON “parser” using sscanf. sscanf is not bulletproof! Just use an open source library instead of writing something yourself. You will still be a real programmer, but you will finish your game sooner and you won't have embarrassing stories written about you.