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Comment by pjmlp

20 days ago

People did do that, 30 years ago.

Then Watcom C/C++ made it quite easy to use C++ for game development on PCs, PlayStation 2 introduced support for C++, quickly followed up by XBox and Nintendo, and that was it.

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kahlonel  20 days ago

Wrong. I’m still doing it.

  • pjmlp  20 days ago

    Linux kernel also keeps using C.

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