It's 2006. I'm working with threads in C and it's awful

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ryan that's cause nobody feels ready to use anything past C99 yet... for many reasons

[alrecenk@peoplemaking.games]

@eniko I don't know about the compile errors, but I recently learned about conditional variables in C++, which have made my muli-threading life much easier, just being able to wait for a condition before continuing. I also really like recursive_ mutex, lets you lock multiple times on one thread so locking functions can call other locking functions without worrying about a thread deadlocking itself.

[superfunc@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko this sounds like msvc, its such a pain haha

llvm on windows has gotten a lot better over the past few years, but that may not be an option for your circumstance

[maia@mastodon.art]

@eniko It’s optional and many don’t implement it

[pixx@merveilles.town]

@eniko

> no functional standard

Yeaaaaah

libthread is great but then i venture out into the real world and it's gone :(

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@eniko tbf working with C in 2026 sounds awful even on Linux. The only real benefit seems to be setup is less of a headache in general for working with any language on Linux

I say this as someone who primarily does shit in C in 2026

[brett_e_carlock@mastodon.online]

@superblox
@eniko
Half shitpost/half earnestpost:
But what about in Zig?

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@khleedril @eniko "now you have two problems" 🤣

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@eniko how's Clang in Windows these days? MSVC is notoriously bad (and obsolete) C-wise

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@oblomov its bad

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@eniko

woohoo 8-/