Comment by ttul
6 months ago
The programmers on the sound team at the video game company I worked for as an intern in 1998 would always stash a couple of extra void pointers in their classes just in case they needed to add something in later. Programmers should never lose sight of pragmatism. Seeking perfection doesn’t help you ship on time. And often, time to completion matters far more than robustness.
Vulkan does that with `void* pNext` in a lot of its structs so that they can be extended in the future.