A Perspective on D from game industry

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On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 08:22:59 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>
> I have played around with C++ for a small graphics application, 
> but note that the NDK does only support game related APIs.
>
> When using middleware like Qt, you have access to the majority 
> of APIs but then have to pay the JNI marshaling cost.

Yep, this is true. For a while I believe that the swedish cross 
platform product MoSync would pull it off by compiling C++ to 
java etc. It was pretty nice for what it aimed to do, but 
apparently the market was not ready for it and the 
Android/iPhone/Windows platforms started to diverge their UIs at 
a fast rate making cross platform design difficult.

You also have the Marmalade SDK which allows cross platform game 
coding in C/C++, but it costs real money (coming from a game 
studio).

Anyway, with Swift out, writing regular non-visual apps in that 
language makes most sense, then porting it to Java. C++ can be 
used for backend engines, but for anything in the user interface 
it makes more sense to either special case it for the native APIs 
or go HTML5.