John Carmack on Eclipse performance

[PauloPinto]

On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 11:49:54 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 11:35:29 UTC, Bruno Medeiros 
> wrote:
>> "Hardware does get faster more rapidly than software gets 
>> slower -- I'm finding Eclipse perfectly usable on modern 
>> hardware."
>>
>> https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/383334141078429697
>>
>> I would have liked some more details on what he is using 
>> Eclipse for though. Is it Android development? And even so, is 
>> it just Java or C/C++ too? Especially significant given Manu's 
>> recent comments that:
>> "I've never met a C++ developer that likes Eclipse ;)"
>> :p
>
> This guy has been trying to re-write on of his old games in 
> Haskell (can't remember which one).
>
> Are you seriously considering him a typical C++ game developer? 
> :D

Doom, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A

As for C++, he is one of the guys in the industry pushing forward 
for using static analysis in C++.

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/12/24/static-code-analysis/

And actually uses C++ since Doom 3 (2004), 
http://kotaku.com/454293019.

As for his aversion to C++, I remember the performance 
discussions about C and Pascal versus Assembly. Hey back then, 
even with my Pascal background, I was convinced that Assembly was 
more than enough!

Then came the discussions of C vs C++, with personalities like 
Carmack and Abrash taking the C side.

And nowadays, like C has taken most Assembly use cases, just to 
be followed by C++. Now we can even watch a few OS being coded in 
C++, which was unthinkable back in the C vs C++ war days.

So I always smile when I see discussions about performance of 
language implementations.

--
Paulo