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  • It was not randomly decided. Even before arrays as a language concept existed, you would just store objects in continuous memory.

    To access you would do $addr+0, $addr+1 etc. The index had to be zero-based or you would simply waste the first address.

    Then in languages like C that just got a little bit of syntactic sugar where the ‘[]’ operator is a shorthand for that offset. An array is still just a memory address (i.e. a pointer).







  • If we are being fair, they are still reasonably fair to users. Open source gaming is not a reality.

    They don’t force you to use Steam, but still work on Proton as Open Source. They don’t lock down their hardware.

    What I’m trying to say is, while Valve is not perfect, it’s much better than any big tech alternative.