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0 pointsdirewolf201mo ago0 comments

COM was designed to be compatible with C. Linux games are also often written in C++. The ones written in C are just old.

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jiggawatts1mo ago

Sure, but in practice COM is almost never used from C programs unless there is some integration into a very legacy codebase. Games are newly developed, they’re not enterprise database platforms.

direwolf20OP1mo ago

OpenGL is commonly used from C++ too, or Java, but you labeled it as C.

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0 pointsdirewolf201mo ago0 comments

COM was designed to be compatible with C. Linux games are also often written in C++. The ones written in C are just old.

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jiggawatts1mo ago

Sure, but in practice COM is almost never used from C programs unless there is some integration into a very legacy codebase. Games are newly developed, they’re not enterprise database platforms.

direwolf20OP1mo ago

OpenGL is commonly used from C++ too, or Java, but you labeled it as C.

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