D for Game Development

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 6 August 2015 at 21:23, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 6/08/2015 11:18 p.m., Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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>> On 5 August 2015 at 05:13, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d
>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
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>>> On 5/08/2015 6:59 a.m., develop32 wrote:
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>>>> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 13:43:35 UTC, karabuta wrote:
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>>>>> D is really cool and makes a good candidate for developing a game. Are
>>>>> there any guys out there using D for indie games?
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>>>> Not an indie game, but Remedy is making Quantum Break using D.
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>>> Got a source for that? As I can't find it.
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>> Hi. I dunnit, and I did a talk about it at dconf2013.
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> I knew you were involved with them back then. I was more interested in
> anything that happened after that.

It took a lot longer for us to get the compiler to a sufficiently
stable state that we were able to build reliably than we'd liked. In
the mean time, code pegged for D was forced to be written in C, so a
lot of D code ended out being C code on account of 'couldn't wait'.
When I left, there were a couple of critical systems running in D, and
a few toolchain issues left to work out (Windows DLL's + GC). It was
left with Ethan who occasionally appears here.
I'm not sure where it went after that. There was much enthusiasm among
the team, but the toolchain progressed slower than we could afford,
and we just had to get on with it in some cases. Hopefully there's
still some D code in there, and (if the problems were fixed!) there's
no good reason why it wouldn't have scaled out from where I left it.