Unvanquished Begins Landing C++11 Engine Rewrite

[jayrulez]

Lol, another day, another pointless debate on programming languages.

By more or less the usual suspects.

[dh04000]

Lol, another day, another pointless debate on programming languages.

[Daktyl198]

C++, C, what's with all this high level crap? They should have used assembler.

Pfft, real men write the binary themselves. Amateurs.

[dee.]

C++, C, what's with all this high level crap? They should have used assembler.

[benalib]

Any reason they didn't want to move to C99/C11?

for a small team C++11 is a better choice than C. it's more maintainable

[clavko]

Problem with C++ is that it's very easy to write overcomplicated, obfuscated and hard to understand code if not careful. C version will be lengthier but easier to understand and debug by newbies.

Not being careful is going to hurt substantially more with C than with C++,
just when you start wrangling pointers and managing memory... scary. A good
programming language will help you focus on your task, minimum boilerplate.
C++ is not ideal, however it's a million miles voyage apart from C. Personally,
I can't see how anyone could consider C code easier to understand, write or debug,
provided he's had enough exposure to both to make an informed decision.

[peppercats]

Any reason they didn't want to move to C99/C11?

Because you can write C in C++, even just using C++ simply for templates is a step up.

[Akka]

I guess that's because of flaky compiler support, specially MSVC.


Problem with C++ is that it's very easy to write overcomplicated, obfuscated and hard to understand code if not careful. C version will be lengthier but easier to understand and debug by newbies.

No, modern c++ is a lot easier language than c. Do you also think python is harder than c?

[clavko]

Any reason they didn't want to move to C99/C11?

C++ is a safer language, is backward compatible, oop is not an afterthought,
performance is comparable if not the same, and critical portions can still be
C and/or even asm. Also there are more people that have some kind of C++
background. The last, but not least, number of LOC is going to be smaller.

[ciplogic]

Any reason they didn't want to move to C99/C11?

I think is all related with their experience of C++. Otherwise they would use the best choice: Python, obviously.