A Perspective on D from game industry

[c0de517e via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 11:28:12 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2014/06/where-is-my-c-replacement.html?m=1
>
> The arguments against D are pretty weak if I'm honest, but I 
> think it's important we understand what people think of D. I 
> can confirm this sentiment is fairly common in the industry.
>
> Watch out for the little jab at Andrei :-P

Don't take the writing too literally, I improvise a lot. The 
point of the post was not an analysis of D or of its language 
features (for that I wrote a fairly big post in 2011 
http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2011/04/2011-current-and-future-programming.html 
that also came with a survey among videogame professionals 
http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2011/05/2011-future-programming-languages-for.html)

I like D and I think Rust is very nifty and interesting as well 
FWIW. This post was trying to (badly) say something else, that 
is, given that we don't see much language activity in videogames 
(compared to other engineering fields) why is that even if we 
have good languages, better versions of C++, we don't switch?

And the point was that maybe "better" is not enough...