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lone_haxx0r on Sept 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)

The thing I hate about them is the backwards declaration syntax.

var x:i32 = 5; ugh, it makes no sense.

FreeFull on Sept 22, 2019 | [–]

Usually you wouldn't write the type, so `let x = 5;` In general, the C style type declarations complicate parsing quite a lot as well.

skohan on Sept 22, 2019 | [–]

You'd be surprised how fast you get used to it.

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