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		kolbusa on Oct 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unified Shader Programming in C++ C++ is a mess from the backwards compatibility and portability point of view. Just try shipping a binary C++ library on Linux.

agent327 on Oct 4, 2021 | [–]

Funnily enough, the things that everyone complains about are all inherited from C...

pjmlp on Oct 4, 2021 | | [–]

As if C was imune from such ABI mess called glibc.

bloodycxx on Oct 4, 2021 | [–]

Wat? Wat? C++ always has been much easy to use in Linux compared to Windows.

Modern C also lack portability due to UBOs and compiler optimizations, but still good enough so is C++.

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