D and the demo scene

Moritz Warning moritzwarning at web.de
Wed Jul 23 05:00:21 PDT 2008


On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:37:38 +0200, Mike wrote:

> It just occured to me that D would be THE perfect language for the demo
> scene. Inline assembler, all those C libraries at hand, pointer tricks,
> all there.
> 
> Those guys are high school kids open to new ideas/languages, they write
> mostly every project from scratch, they're the guys who get hired by
> gaming companies (and gaming is in my opinion THE number 1 market where
> D has potential to become industry standard). So - I think - it would be
> easy to get a bunch of them to adopt D and it could have the
> long-lasting benefit of getting D users into gaming companies.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -Mike

Would be nice thought.
But the D compilers produce quite big programs (It doesn't have to be 
that way). It's often a no go for the demo scene.



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