Beginning with D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Daniel Keep" <daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:go520b$1o5f$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> Prestidigitator wrote:
>> Is D as good at game programming as C++? Also, would it be better to use 
>> 1.0 or 2.0?
>
> D is a good language, and there are people writing games with it; just
> look at Deadlock [1] or Mayhem Intergalactic [2] (the latter of which is
> on sale right now!).
>

Also, Torus Trooper, Tumiki Fighters and probably a few of the other games 
by Kenta Cho/ABA Games were written in an early version of D (with Tumiki 
Fighters being the original version of Blast Works). 
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html

A large part of my programming background has centered on games, and I'd say 
that, for the most part, D is vastly better than C/C++ for games (In fact, 
that's what originally drew me to D in the first place). The one drawback 
though is that D support for consoles and other embedded systems is 
practically non-existent right now (but hopefully LDC will change that). 
Also, the vast majority of game middle-ware is still C/C++, so D bindings 
would have to be created to use them. That could be either easy or difficult 
depending on the actual lib.

Also, be wary of people on places like gamedev.net that try to immediately 
dismiss D. I've read a lot of their stuff and most of the time they 
demonstrate very clearly that they don't actually know anything about D, and 
they'll often get their facts about D comepletely wrong, or outdated, etc. 
Games have been C/C++ for a very long time, and have stayed that way (for 
very good reason) even while most software has switched to other 
newer/trendier languages, so it's very difficult for most of them to accept 
the idea that there might actually be something better.