I write games in C (yes, C)

Re:I write games in C (yes, C) by uecker on Sunday February 08, 2026 @01:37AM (#46931860)

This seems orthogonal to std::string. People who pick C do not want automatic memory management, but might want better strings.

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Re:I write games in C (yes, C) by direwolf20 on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:01AM (#46932933)

Automatic memory management is literally what makes them better

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Re:I write games in C (yes, C) by uecker on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:53AM (#46933187)

For many string operations such as appending, inserting, overwriting etc. the memory management can be made automatic as well in C, and I think this is the main advantage. Just automatic free at scope end does not work (without extensions).

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Re:I write games in C (yes, C) by direwolf20 on Sunday February 08, 2026 @11:11AM (#46935562)

You can make strings (or bignums or matrices) more convenient than the C default but you can never make them as convenient as ints, while in C++ you can.

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Re:I write games in C (yes, C) by uecker on Sunday February 08, 2026 @11:44AM (#46935973)

Yes, but I do not think this is a good thing. A programming language has to fulfill many requirements, and convenience for the programmer is not the most important.

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Re:I write games in C (yes, C) by direwolf20 on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:37PM (#46939290)

Empirically it is. All the most used languages are the most convenient ones.

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