D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 19:32:28 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
> Game engines *MUST* be *EFFICIENT* in order facilitate the 
> demands the games place on them. And "efficiency" *means* 
> efficiency: it means minimizing wasted processing, and that 
> *inherently* means *both* speed and battery.

I think there is a slight disconnection in how different people 
view efficency. You argue that this is some kind of absolute 
metric. I would argue that it is a relative metric, and it is 
relative to flexibility and power.

This isn't specific to games.

For instance, there is no spatial datatructure that is inherently 
better or more efficient than all other spatial datastructures.

It depends on what you need to represent. It depends on how often 
you need to update. It depends on what kind of queries you want 
to do. And so on.

This is where a generic application/UI framework will have to 
give priority to being generally useful in the most general sense 
and give priority to flexibility and expressiveness.

A first person shooter game engine, can however make a lot of 
assumptions. That will make it more efficient for a narrow set of 
cases, but also completely useless in the most general sense. It 
also limits what you can do, quite severely.