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		sd314 on Feb 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format Best practices and rules in C++ are changing on a daily basis as the language is still evolving. On the other hand, C is much more readable for many programmers and researchers even with a little programming experience. Moreover, C is more portable and helps the reference implementation be quickly adapted for production or being used by the other compatible languages.

adev_ on Feb 7, 2020 [–]

> Best practices and rules in C++ are changing on a daily basis as the language is still evolving.

Yeah "daily", C++ standard evolves every 3 years minimum and most API are still C++11 meaning 9 years old. "Daily" right ?

This is FUD. Without even mentioning that any C++lib can expose a C API.

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