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Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by kllrnohj on Saturday September 21, 2019 @03:06PM (#21037239)
> > It can be made to run on just about anything. Usually this is relatively easy. It is hard to imagine a time when this won't be the case.

> This is the big advantage of C. If doesn't run C, probably it just doesn't run at all.

Is that really an advantage of C over C++? They have identical runtime requirements and typically share a common compiler (although one of those, MSVC, barely supports C). Is there actually anything that can run C but which cannot run C++?

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Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) by Hokusai on Saturday September 21, 2019 @05:45PM (#21038098)
> Is that really an advantage of C over C++?

You may find that not all C++ features are supported for the least popular processors or for old ones.

Standard C++ threads, for example, were not supported by GCC for Windows for a long time. I do not know what is the current status, thou.

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