Hello.

Is C++ code accepted in blender? I noticed that there isn't much of it other than in the somewhat disjoint game engine.

Is there any reason to not gradually move from C to C++ for some OOP features other than unfamiliarity with C++?

Thanks,
Colin

Well, there is the fact that it is such a needlessly complicated and cumbersome language.

But then, that’s just my opinion from having written about 100,000 lines of it over several years.

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Is there any reason to not gradually move from C to C++ for some OOP features other than unfamiliarity with C++?

Yes. Re-writing code in another language is pointless and silly.

stiv wrote:

Quote: Is there any reason to not gradually move from C to C++ for some OOP features other than unfamiliarity with C++? Yes. Re-writing code in another language is pointless and silly.

I'm not asking to rewrite blender in C++, I'm asking if C++ modules are accepted, and at what level? You mention rewriting code in another language being silly, but I specifically found a case (using Google) where a C++ addition to blender kernel was rewritten in C

I'm trying to avoid having to rewrite any feature additions I make to Blender because of an OOP design I chose that is incompatible with standard C

Good question, I've often wondered why there's so much pure C in the Blender codebase.

Blender was released in 1995 and was written prior to that. The official C++ standard was in 1998. There were plenty of C++ programmers, but it is to no surprise that Blender was primarily written in C. And unlike other people say, I would advise that instead of picking favorites in the programming languages, just learn as many as you can, because they all serve some purpose(s) better than others.