• anewfox@lemmy.zip
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    16 hours ago

    c to c++ isn’t really moving forward, it’s lateral, and i don’t mean that as a slight against c++ (for once, lol). same with 2d to 3d. turns out tim sweeny just says shit thinking we’re stupid, imagine that.

    if he really knew anything, he would have said “c to rust,” which would have also been nonsense but it would have gotten a funnier reaction at least.

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      12 hours ago

      2d->3d – bigger number

      c -> c++ – two extra plusses (and plus already means extra!)

      games -> epic games – it’s got “epic” in the name

      You don’t have to be a genus to see these are all better!

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      12 hours ago

      Thinking C++ is advanced C is like thinking C# is advanced Java. Even if they were really similar at a point, they’ve moved on and diverged into their own thing. Things don’t necessarily get better; more often than not they just change.

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      14 hours ago

      Idk if Sweeney is trying to pull one over on people he thinks are dumb. I’d believe that he thinks those are meaningful changes because he’s just a deluded twat.

      It’s not an exoneration. I’m just not angry at him, only derisive.