D and C++ renderer side by side demonstration

[kinke]

On Saturday, 7 August 2021 at 03:15:30 UTC, Ki Rill wrote:
> I was watching Timur Gafarov’s videos on Dagon Engine and 
> stumbled upon a video that demonstrated a C++ Renderer Engine 
> using the same Sponza scene. I thought it would be a great idea 
> to show them side by side.
>
> This is not a “X vs Y” video! It just demonstrates the 
> capabilities of D and C++ side by side.

Sorry, but it just demonstrates the capabilities of 2 seemingly 
totally unrelated rendering engines and might easily mislead 
beginners, not helping D at all. What makes you think the used 
programming language would have any effect on the capabilities of 
a rendering engine? Some old Quake engine was ported from C or 
C++ to Emscripten (JavaScript) via WebGL by Carmack himself IIRC 
some years ago, and the visual results were unsurprisingly 
identical. There might be differences in efficiency, especially 
for JavaScript vs. a system programming language, but most modern 
graphics are GPU-bound anyway.