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I was working on a C code base with classes, inheritance, and polymorphism, all done by hands and macros.
Something like
Overall, learning C was the best enabler in my whole career. For instance I was learning Python by tinkering with CPython VM, so when I see these ‘WAT’ quircks I know exactly what’s up.
Interesting, how did they do inheritance? Something like
void *super
? Also why not switch to CPP if you wanna do OOP?