C Is Everywhere

people here talking about how C/C++ is unsafe, no good, don't learn it Your browser was written in C. Your OS was written in C. AAA games are in C. game engines are in C. "safe" languages are (or were) in C. Your art tools, written in C. Audio tools, C. all of these things are in C because beyond some threshold, nothing else will deliver *predictably* higher performance at both compilation time and runtime, except maybe a shader, which is useful in fewer contexts

A dark-mode social media screenshot shows a post arguing that people should not learn C or C++ because they are unsafe, followed by a reply explaining that browsers, operating systems, AAA games, game engines, and many creative and audio tools rely on C for predictable performance. The joke is a sarcastic rebuttal to simplistic anti-C/C++ advice, emphasizing the language’s practical dominance in performance-critical software. EN: A dark-mode social media screenshot shows a post arguing that people should not learn C or C++ because they are unsafe, followed by a reply explaining that browsers, operating systems, AAA games, game engines, and many creative and audio tools rely on C for predictable performance. The joke is a sarcastic rebuttal to simplistic anti-C/C++ advice, emphasizing the language’s practical dominance in performance-critical software.

• @gentoomemes / 9550 2024-02-20