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Re:Box2D 3.0 Released by bun_terminator on Monday August 12, 2024 @02:59AM (#41221842)
Context: This is a widely used C++ library for 2D physics. It has always been super flexible/hackable, easy to setup and rock stable physics. Therefore a popular choice for games. Good to see that some of the code idiosyncrasies have disappeared (it had a lot of pointers and callbacks)
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Re:Box2D 3.0 Released by marbs on Monday August 12, 2024 @06:12AM (#41222898)
Box2D has moved from C++ to C for this v3.0 release. Erin has explained why further down in the post:

https://box2d.org/posts/2024/08/releasing-box2d-3.0/#moving-...

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Re:Box2D 3.0 Released by Sakos on Monday August 12, 2024 @06:50AM (#41223077)
Is it just me or does that section not really explain why?

The reasons given here felt more insightful to me: https://box2d.org/documentation/md_faq.html

> Box2D is designed to be portable and easy to wrap with other languages, so I decided to use C11. I used C11 to get support for atomics.

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