OSNews thread here degenerates into GC vs not

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Wed Nov 22 10:03:07 PST 2006


Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
> So yeh, that's why folks like the Civ team and the folks behind Eve 
> Online are willing to go with Python.  For most things Python is fast 
> enough, and gets the job done much more quickly than C++.  For the small 
> fracton of the code where it's not fast enough, you can always re-write 
> those bits in C and call it from Python.

The Civ4 post mortem was an interesting read.  Even the dev team was 
surprised at what a good choice Python turned out to be.  I think they 
initially had only planned to write a very small portion of the game in 
Python and instead ended up writing almost the entire thing in Python.


Sean



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