If I had my way

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On Monday, 12 December 2011 at 13:56:22 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Yes, there are engines which implement *game logic* using GC 
> based
> scripts/JIT-ers, but both the ENGINES you mention are still 
> written in
> C/C++, and have very tight control of the hardware. Given this 
> example, are
> you suggesting D is a scripting language to sit above some 
> C/C++ app? For
> me, that's the opposite of what D is.

I've thought before how well suited D is for a Unity-style game 
engine. D's an obvious choice for the engine internals, but why 
not use it in replacement of game logic "scripts" as well? SafeD 
is just as easy to understand as C# or Unity's Javascript 
(relatively). Only you'd get the added benefit of native 
performance on game logic blocks, which could easily be packaged 
with the engine for release. For an editor, it should be easy 
enough to utilize DMD to compile game-logic files into their own 
temporary executable dynamically (or dynamic library?) which 
would pass messages to the engine running in-editor.