How wrong you are, C++ isn't in the same league as C, Microsoft was right not wanting to keep updating their C support.
It was already outdated by the time Borland released Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS, and only got new wind thanks to GNU FOSS and their manifest to prefer C as the main compiled language for GNU projects.
Everywhere else outside UNIX, was going with a mix of C++ for OS frameworks, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Be, Nokia, Epoch,....
Naturally given the option, between C, C++ and something else I might prefer that something else, however I managed a few interesting positions exactly due to my C++ skills, and interests.
So don't mix my preferences for C and C++ on the same basket.
Yeah, original/parent comment I wrote with a twinkle in my eye (hard to communicate though), hoping that the smiley at the end conveyed it, but I might have replaced ; with : mistakenly.
I think many of us throughout the years been reading pjmlp's comments which fits a certain "theme". I don't mind though, it's just text after all, but was hard to keep myself from entering the meta-conversation when the opportunity just sat there. I still don't mean no harm by it, we all have our less agreeable ways of writing our comments, I'm surely guilty of it in some way too.
> Ad hominen then an apology, mixed signals here or I'm missing something. Maybe sarcasm?
You can express annoyance at someone's pattern of behavior without it being personal. embedding-shape isn't the only person annoyed by pjmlp's repeated disdain and snark towards people who use C (or Zig or WebAssembly or Rust or...).
> Usually I reply in the same tone as I get talked with
No, you're usually the initiator. Usually it's with some off-hand quip about how C programmers don't understand C, or how the people designing WebAssembly are ignorant of COM or the JVM, or how Zig is just Modula-2, etc.
Most threads you participate in aren't filled with snark until you enter them.
It was already outdated by the time Borland released Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS, and only got new wind thanks to GNU FOSS and their manifest to prefer C as the main compiled language for GNU projects.
Everywhere else outside UNIX, was going with a mix of C++ for OS frameworks, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Be, Nokia, Epoch,....
Naturally given the option, between C, C++ and something else I might prefer that something else, however I managed a few interesting positions exactly due to my C++ skills, and interests.
So don't mix my preferences for C and C++ on the same basket.