Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)

Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by z3phyr on Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:31PM (#21036680)

If C gets operator overloading and RAII, there will be no good reason to use C++ for me!!

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Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by FrozenVoid on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:27AM (#21046164)

Only operator overloading is really important and would cut down the size of code written substantially. Thats the only real advantage of using C++ vs C. Everything else oop, function overloading,RAII,etc can be replaced with macros and structs.

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Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by pingyong on Monday September 23, 2019 @08:54AM (#21048422)

Pretty sure you can't make destructors with macros?

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Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by FrozenVoid on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:44AM (#21069759)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...

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Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by sramsay on Saturday September 21, 2019 @02:35PM (#21037061)

Is RAII in C a serious suggestion being made anywhere?

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Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by kazinator on Saturday September 21, 2019 @04:02PM (#21037578)

GCC has it as an extension. See the cleanup attribute:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attribute...

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Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by ncmncm on Sunday September 22, 2019 @04:41AM (#21040325)

It is meaningless without destructors and exceptions.

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