A Perspective on D from game industry

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d]

I'm going to try my hand at making a game with 2.066, because I 
believe @nogc is a final piece in a puzzle of making doing that 
easy. Much like writing bare metal D code without the runtime, 
I'm going to try my hand at writing D code with the main function 
marked as @nogc, because I reckon it's going to leave me with a 
saner set of syntax and semantics than either C or C++ in the 
end, with none of the drawbracks from the stop the world effect 
in a game loop.

Having said that, I do think there's some kind of brain 
malfunction on the part of games programmers that makes them 
think "is slow and can't escape from" when they hear "garbage 
collector" and "makes things more complicated and slower" when 
they hear "template." Neither of these things are true.