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New comment by agosz in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

agosz — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:13:49 +0000

That's so cool! I didn't know they open sourced it. Is your work also open? And how do you check that the frames don't change?

I love seeing people try to revive old games and improve them for players. I've made a couple of contributions to VCMI, an open source implementation of heroes of might and magic 3 that I used to play as a kid and it's so rewarding seeing people use those.

New comment by agosz in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

agosz — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:35:36 +0000

If I may ask, how did you end up getting access to the code base? And what are you doing with it?

New comment by agosz in "Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web"

agosz — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:21:24 +0000

How does this compare to a static site generator like 11ty? What would be the benefits of Astro over that or another site generator?

New comment by agosz in "Introducing command And commandfor In HTML"

agosz — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:13:47 +0000

That's what people say of C++ too. Too many features makes it harder to learn a language and ramp up on codebases; they'll have different standards on what they use.

New comment by agosz in "C++26: Pack Indexing"

agosz — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:39:36 +0000

The compatibility can be solved with macros to toggle it on or off depending on how you're building. C++26 has constexpr sqrt.

New comment by agosz in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

agosz — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:26:45 +0000

This will ultimately benefit the current Big Tech incumbents. Tiktok was gaining ground rapidly on advertising money and I wouldn't be surprised if there was lobbying that stifled the competition.

Instead of banning TikTok, we should be trying to compete with them and make a better product that wins customers over. It's sad to see the US becoming more authoritarian and follow China's example.

New comment by agosz in "Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games"

agosz — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:26:46 +0000

Yes, that's correct! Unfortunately ARM64 can't fully interface with x64 code (e.g. you can't translate an ARM64 CONTEXT to an x64 one directly due to differing numbers of registers), so the backwards compatibility is restricted to ARM64EC only.

New comment by agosz in "Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games"

agosz — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:39:10 +0000

ARM64EC doesn't really make your code JITable. It is ARM64 code with thunks to enable transitions to x64 code. That's why it runs at near native speeds; not because of the JIT. The x64 portions of the binary do get JITed though, but the ARM64EC portions are usually much faster.

All x64 code gets JITed but that's regardless of whether ARM64EC is used or not; ARM64EC allows ARM64 applications to interface with x64 binaries.

New comment by agosz in "Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games"

agosz — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:33:38 +0000

ARM64EC requires source and it produces an ARM64EC executable, which runs close to ARM64 speeds. x86/x64 executables are emulated.

New comment by agosz in "How America's universities became debt factories"

agosz — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 18:31:23 +0000

> I went to Georgia Tech over other universities because it was in-state and Georgia has generous scholarships for students with good grades. So why does competition among schools not lower costs?

All the schools have access to loans that are guaranteed to be repaid. We still have the mindset that degrees are required for employment (I'm not commenting on whether that's good or bad; that's just the current cultural mindset). Because of this, schools have no incentives to control costs. The students will go regardless because they have access to money that will pay for the tuition, no matter how much it costs. There's no penalty for the universities to raise costs because they will get students anyways.

New comment by agosz in "Leaving Neovim for Zed"

agosz — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:46:19 +0000

Can I use the VS Code C++ extensions still?

New comment by agosz in "GitHub was down"

agosz — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:13:14 +0000

It's showing a few incidents now. Some things are still green though that don't seem to be working.

New comment by agosz in "Jiff: A brand new Datetime library for Rust, from the author of ripgrep"

agosz — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:05:51 +0000

MPL or CDPL

New comment by agosz in "Ask HN: Do you already see the impact of LLMs on the job prospects for dev's?"

agosz — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:17:43 +0000

I have tried using LLMs on the legacy C++ codebase that I work on, and the only thing it could reliably do was generate code for unit tests.

When I fix bugs, it's usually not helpful because I need to debug and track down where the bug is.

When I develop new features, it occasionally uses the wrong lock, or makes up APIs that don't exist. I find it gets in the way more for development.

For C# and .NET core, I found IntelliCode to be pretty useful.

New comment by agosz in "Compilers are too smart"

agosz — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:24:17 +0000

Yes, D. D has great support for compile-time function execution, and generics. You can generate code at compile time and use it with generics. It's what C++ should have been.