D for Game Development

[Brandon Ragland via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 15:23:18 UTC, Minas Mina wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 14:18:21 UTC, Brandon Ragland 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 13:44:41 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 13:43:35 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>>>> D is really cool and makes a good candidate for developing a 
>>>> game. Are there any guys out there using D for indie games?
>>>>
>>>> For some time I have been seeing some cool game engine being 
>>>> developed in the DUB repo. What more is happening? I don't 
>>>> see derelictSDl and derelictSFML activities much. Whatup?
>>>
>>> GC's up.
>>
>> Minecraft, written in java which has a GC does perfectly fine.
>>
>> A GC is not a reason a game cannot be developed.
>>
>> Look at how many browser-based games there are, which use a GC 
>> somewhere from the interpreted Flash or JS.
>
> Not really.
> http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/support/server-support/server-administration/1916245-garbage-collection-issues-help-with-java
>
> Look it up in google.

First: That doesn't reflect the majority of users, and is an 
isolated case.

Second: That doesn't prove anything about GC in general. Perhaps 
they were using an out-dated Java version, or one of their 
plugins was hogging things up.

Garbage collection is a non-issue even in most video games. 
Minecraft is an *extreme* case because minecraft has tons and 
tons of user variables to take into account, such as the 
thousands of blocks users place, and all the entities that 
wouldn't be an issue in say, an FPS or MMO RPG game.

If anything, Minecraft is an example of how well GC can work, 
even when the program itself is seriously abusing the heap and 
dynamic memory allocation.