Programming Language for Games, part 3

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On Saturday, 1 November 2014 at 22:50:27 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> However JVM/.NET languages with a grain of C++ salt for 
> JNI/PInvoke, are what my employer and our customers care about, 
> so I can't justify to our customers any alternatives.

I don't think anyone would say that C/C++ would be alternatives 
to JVM/.NET. Which is what I find a bit frustrating about D 
forums. Whenever system level programming is discussed people are 
not really arguing from a performance perspective, but then I 
don't think they really need C/C++/D…

Anyway, I believe you can turn on bound checks with some 
C-compilers if you want it, but I don't think anyone who is 
looking for performance want them in release.

Related to game programming:

I noticed Jonathan being very negative to the web and web 
programming. Which is not without merits, but the funny thing is 
that the only thing that keeps the web from being a solid gaming 
platform is the lack of payment service that has a very low 
threshold.

I see some clear benefits with browsers/javascript's ability to 
compile directly to machine language on the fly. Just see what 
the demo scene are doing with code generators. So yeah, the code 
is slower, but perhaps not skillful use of it. Maybe we'll see 4K 
demo compos for asm.js and WebGL.

Btw, I read the Oberon07 spec the other day and interestingly 
Wirth included add/subtract with carry.  So Oberon has an edge 
there… :)