D is our last hope

aberba karabutaworld at gmail.com
Sat Dec 16 20:54:51 UTC 2023


On Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 11:05:30 UTC, Martyn wrote:
> On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 18:39:22 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Future games will have GC whenever you like it or not. Games 
>> are becoming more and more complex the benefit of having GC is 
>> obvious.
>
> It is a misconception that having no Garbage Collector is bad 
> or dangerous or silly. It is also misleading that (games 
> programming specifically) will "benefit using a Garbage 
> Collector as games get more complex."
>
> Game programmers NEED CONTROL OF MEMORY. The only time I can 
> see this ever changing is if hardware evolves at a faster rate 
> than software. The reality is the opposite. game programmers 
> have to squeeze every inch out of the hardware. Of course, I am 
> referring to the AAA titles.
>

Isn't everyone writing AAA games using some form of game engine? 
Which AAA is written from scratch code?


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