[OT] Previously: DMD - Windows -> C# in gamedev

[Peter Alexander]

On 7/01/12 11:17 PM, Manu wrote:
> On 7 January 2012 21:00, Froglegs <lugtug at gmail.com
> <mailto:lugtug at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>       Well games often already integrate scripting languages, generally
>     Lua or Mono, which are both GC based. But this is for the game
>     logic, not for the high performance parts of the code.
>
>
> Indeed. And this is usually just to mitigate the fact that C++ is so
> crap at this sort of code. Maybe D will be tolerable, and this breaking
> out to script won't be necessary? (though I'm dubious)

The main advantage of Lua for game code (in my opinion) is runtime 
reloading, and the ability to avoid recompiles just to test some new 
game logic. That's not so easy with C++.