There is no classes, extremely rare use of templates in the Handmade Hero code.

C++ with structs and 99% procedural code is actually very close to vanilla C.

Let's not be pedantic here.

It was C++ from day one because he intended to use operator overloading

I think he is the perfect example of why I don't care what those C (or minimalist subset C++) programmers have to say. When you actually see how he works, how much time he spends debugging his messy code. They are all sooooooo far away from what I would describe as remotely good, clean code. And all so full of themselves too of course.

I liked Handmadehero for this reason, he is so arrogant and certain about how to properly write code, but when you actually see how he codes, what mess he produces and how long he spends live debugging it all the time. He constantly finds bugs in code he wrote earlier, etc. Yet he is so totally unable to find anything remotely wrong about the way he does things, and that there might have been some ideas invented in the last 30 years that could make him more productive.

I have zero respect for those types of programmers. I would quit any job instantly if I ever had to work with guys like this.