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by proxyon 1100 days ago
What's the point of refactoring C++ to C? That sounds weird and regressive.
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acuozzo 1099 days ago
No C++ compiler for the target architecture?
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JohnFen 1099 days ago
For subtle technical reasons relating to the toolchain, it's not possible to use C++ for this platform.

Well, it is possible, but it would easily take four times the amount of time it would take to port the C++ code to C. So porting makes the most sense.

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gyrovorbis 1099 days ago
There are a few niche reasons. The entire GNOME/GTk stack benefits greatly in the realm of language interop from being C at its core. This is why it easily has bindings to every language ever.
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