The Serpent Game Framework - Open Source!!

[aberba]

On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 22:29:41 UTC, aberba wrote:
> There's this ongoing open source game framework by Ikey. I knew 
> him to be a diehard C guru (from the Solus Project) but is now 
> rocking D, hence Serpent.
>
> [...]

Ikey did an interview with Foss and he said something about why 
he uses D. It's interested and funny as well.

>Having done a lot of Go development, I started researching 
>alternatives to C that were concurrency-aware, string-sane, and 
>packed with a powerful cross-platform standard library. This is 
>the part where everyone will automatically tell you to use Rust.

> Unfortunately, I’m too stupid to use Rust because the syntax 
> literally offends my eyes. I don’t get it, and I never will. 
> Rust is a fantastic language and as academic endeavours go, 
> highly successful. Unfortunately, I’m too practically minded 
> and seek comfort in C-style languages, having lived in that 
> world too long. So, D was the best candidate to tick all the 
> boxes, whilst having C & C++ interoptability.

Pew! Pew!! Nailed it.

https://itsfoss.com/ikey-doherty-serpent-interview/