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This reads like privacy-invasion propaganda directly from the Chinese state. "Look how great we are at having full control over your PC. You know, to battle cheaters!".

Kernel-level anticheat is ridiculous. Especially when your data becomes a gaping would ready for the chinese state to stick their fingers into and twist around. It's like the police installing mandatory cameras in everyones house to catch thieves (if society here is games with kernel-level cheats).

I want to go back to the days of Windows 7. When there was minimal corporate bloat in the ecosystem, no ads in the startmenu, and when game studios actually knew what they were talking about and had some balls to stand up for their values.

honestly, html can include css and javascript via link and style tags. there's no reason for it to not have an <include src="" /> tag, and let the browser parsing it fetch the content to replace it.

Or just statically compile all binaries like a (useful) madman

most of these combinations actually have legitimate use-cases. and, kind of like what the article is pointing to; it's really only confusing if you learnt it the bad way from the start.

that said, I think the more extreme examples probably come from C codebases, where these kinds of declarations are actually highly useful as well as highly logical, compared to C++ which usually tones these kinds of things down via STL and higher level abstractions.

i'd also argue both C and C++ still have their place as legitimate tools for their purposes, and especially C still has no real competitor that can match it for its purposes.