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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.

>>sylwar+(OP)
Then what is proton written in? C++?

>>aleden+T4
wine and vkd3d are plain and simple C99.

>>sylwar+(OP)
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 :)

>>seabro+nO
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>>sylwar+Nt1
Ironically, I think this comment is much more toxic than a developer writing free software in a language of their choosing.

>>sylwar+Nt1
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.

>>sylwar+Nt1
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for something else here.

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