SteamOS, games programming, and D

[Manu]

On 28 September 2013 00:43, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <
joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> So, what with the new SteamOS/SteamBox announcement ...
>
> http://store.steampowered.com/**livingroom/SteamOS/<http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/>
> http://store.steampowered.com/**livingroom/SteamMachines/<http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/>
>
> ... is this a serious opportunity for D to start carving out space in the
> games industry?  What issues need to be addressed for D to be a superb
> games development tool for Linux?
>

Good debugging experience
IDE support
DLL/SharedLibs
Allocators/GC concerns
Reliable library bindings:
  OpenGL
  SDL
  OpenAL
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