I have a plan.. I really DO

[Ecstatic Coder]

On Friday, 6 July 2018 at 14:14:27 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 07/07/2018 2:11 AM, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>> On Friday, 6 July 2018 at 13:50:37 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
>>> On Friday, 6 July 2018 at 13:15:43 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>>>> LOL
>>>>
>>>> Ok, if I'm wrong, then this means D is already a perfect 
>>>> replacement to C++, especially for game development.
>>>>
>>>> Just by curiosity, can you tell me how many successful 
>>>> commercial games based on a D game engine are released each 
>>>> year ?
>>>>
>>>> Or just this year maybe...
>>>
>>> No triple AAA engine is going to switch to D for the 
>>> following reasons:
>>> 1.)Cost vs benefit from converting C++ to D.
>>> 2.)Gamers do not care how things are implemented, they want 
>>> results.
>>> 3.)There are high abundance of c++ programmers for employees 
>>> to hired. I can't say the same thing for D.
>>> 4.)GC phobia.(The notorious culprit)
>>>
>>>
>>> -Alex
>> 
>> +1
>> 
>> Just one silly question.
>> 
>> Can the following "naive" D code trigger a garbage collection 
>> stall ?
>> 
>> score.Text = point_count.to!string() ~ " POINTS";
>
> If the GC has been disabled (which any sane performance caring 
> application should do) no.

Yeah, I know, I'm not silly.

I meant, "if you use standard D code in a game (i.e. with GC 
enabled), the game may stole, but if you use standard C++ code in 
a game, the game may be a bit less performant".

In C++ you don't have to disable anything, and you can still use 
the standard C++ library to make your game if you want to.

With D, I CAN'T use the language and its standard library as 
usual, just because of the GC "phobia".

Which would be the #1 problem for me, because "standard" D is 
perfect to me, as much as "standard" C++ is nice to me.

That's my point.