Comment by direwolf20

19 days ago

You have to try it. You can write anything you want in C. Or assembler. It's hardly going to be very productive but... productivity is greater than zero, and the more you try the better you get. Rollercoaster Tycoon was written by hand in assembly, as were all NES and SNES games including ones like Earthbound and A Link to the Past — and SNES assembly isn't nearly as nice as x64.

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uecker  18 days ago

Ah, the C++ guy who think you need all the features of C++ to be efficient... Many people of people are super productive in C. There is a cost, but this is usually just some initial overhead to identify / write some libraries. In a larger project this initial overhead is irrelevant.

  • direwolf20  18 days ago

    If someone is using a C++ feature it's because they think the feature is better than not using it. std::string lets you treat strings as easily as ints — subject to a run–time cost. You can make libraries that make strings easier to use in C, but you can't make one that makes them as easy as ints.