Programming a Game in D? :D

ponce via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Aug 3 01:29:20 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:38:59 UTC, David wrote:
> Hi, not too sure if there's still someone reading this post, 
> but i do have another question. So, I heared so much good stuff 
> about D, it's powerfull, fast the syntax is nice, but well, why 
> is D actually not used for common games yet? (I mean I know 
> about some smaller projects, but nothing "big")

A lot of commercial game middleware is already written in C++.
Without such third-party libs, it's hard to make a AAA games.
Linking to C++ middleware is way easier if your game is in C++ 
itself.
C++ programmers are accustomed to C++ and the ones who weren't 
flocked to Java, C#, whatever.


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