← Back to context Comment by xigoi 3 years ago Isn't one of the supposed advantages of C that it works on many platforms? 3 comments xigoi Reply iasay 3 years ago The last 40 odd years have proven that it does work but what you write isn’t portable. iainmerrick 3 years ago That’s not the case, if you take a bit of care. Look at STB for example (https://github.com/nothings/stb) -- I’ve successfully used STB functions on a bunch of different platforms. In both C and C++, even! iasay 3 years ago Ah yes the “if you take a bit of care” argument. Welcome to the 1% of C programmers club :)
iasay 3 years ago The last 40 odd years have proven that it does work but what you write isn’t portable. iainmerrick 3 years ago That’s not the case, if you take a bit of care. Look at STB for example (https://github.com/nothings/stb) -- I’ve successfully used STB functions on a bunch of different platforms. In both C and C++, even! iasay 3 years ago Ah yes the “if you take a bit of care” argument. Welcome to the 1% of C programmers club :)
iainmerrick 3 years ago That’s not the case, if you take a bit of care. Look at STB for example (https://github.com/nothings/stb) -- I’ve successfully used STB functions on a bunch of different platforms. In both C and C++, even! iasay 3 years ago Ah yes the “if you take a bit of care” argument. Welcome to the 1% of C programmers club :)
iasay 3 years ago Ah yes the “if you take a bit of care” argument. Welcome to the 1% of C programmers club :)
The last 40 odd years have proven that it does work but what you write isn’t portable.
That’s not the case, if you take a bit of care. Look at STB for example (https://github.com/nothings/stb) -- I’ve successfully used STB functions on a bunch of different platforms. In both C and C++, even!
Ah yes the “if you take a bit of care” argument. Welcome to the 1% of C programmers club :)