@stuartmarks amusingly a few posts before this in my feed was complaints about namespace pollution from the Xlib.h header having #defines for things like “Status” and “None” due to decisions made nearly 40 years ago, when X was just a fun experiment, not core system API.

Have I ever mentioned how much I *hate* the C preprocessor? It poisons everything built on top of it, you make modern code with namespaces and such and it gets broken by the pre-namespace #defines in your thirty year old OS header files. You're building skyscrapers on sand. A significant portion of why I want to jump to Rust or Go is just to get away from the C preprocessor by itself

@whynothugo @0xabad1dea and C++ is even worse, you can redefine the whole language … how do you figure out what + even means when there are user defined types s d all kinds of operator overloading running around? In theory an IDE should be able to figure it out .. but it should figure out #defines too

No more need to declare the enum in C++ and the corresponding #defines in HLSL

@malwareminigun @regehr @steve
(I personally would be happy if Microsoft added a UTF-8 FunU() for every FunW() that uses char8_t instead of wchar_t. I don't even care about those compat-#defines like `#define Fun FunW` - in fact, I wish those could be disabled because they mess with user code that happens to use the same generic names, as methods or whatever (=> not in global namespace))