John Carmack on Eclipse performance

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 01.10.2013 14:02, schrieb w0rp:
> I'm waiting for Carmack to adopt D already. Barring some implementation
> details (GC issues, shared libraries, bla bla) it's pretty much the
> perfect language for what he wants to do. (Fast and functional in
> parts.) Plus, if anyone could work around issues or figure out how to do
> really cool things with D, it would be Carmack.

There are a few QuakeCon talks, already mentioned here, where we goes 
along describing his endeavours with Haskell, OCaml, Lisp and Scheme.

But he also mentions that he has some issues to expose normal game 
developers to such languages, and is exploring how to bring some of 
those ideas into their C++ codebase.

Will he ever try D? Who knows.

One thing that I got to learn from the game development culture, is that 
tooling does not matter the way other software development industries 
think about it.

What really matters about software stacks, is using the official 
devkits, and the right tooling that allows to transform an idea into a 
game that sells.

If the languages, IDE, and so on, are good or bad, it does not matter 
that much. In comparison to have prototypes running fast enough and 
achieving publisher deals.

--
Paulo