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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