A Perspective on D from game industry

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 04:18:28 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 6/15/2014 4:53 PM, w0rp wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I think C++ has caused a lot of brain damage to a lot of 
> unfortunate souls.
>....

One consequence was making those souls think that the C and C++ 
compilation model is a synonym for all languages that compile to 
native code.

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Paulo