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How hard could it be? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Fun quote from an interview with Chris Sawyer:

Latterly the machine code came back to haunt us when the decision was made to re-launch the original game on mobile platforms as RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic a few years ago, and it took several years and a small team of programmers to re-write the entire game in C++. It actually took a lot longer to re-write the game in C++ than it took me to write the original machine code version 20 years earlier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

Well worth it. The mobile version is amazing, that is to say, almost exactly the same as the original.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

Further proof C++ is a pita