So what exactly is coming with extended C++ support?

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/30/2014 04:48 AM, Szymon Gatner wrote:
> On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 20:15:06 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 10:00:27 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>>
>>
>> Is that all it would take? Do you also need a GC-free standard
>> library, which seems to be the need of all the others saying "do this
>> and I'll switch from C++"? Are the tools good enough?
>
> Considered how many games (and I don't mean indie anymore, but for
> example Blizzard's Heartstone) are now created in Unity which uses not
> only GC but runs in Mono I am very skeptical of anybody claiming GC is a
> no-go for games.

The whole "Unity3D == Mono" thing is a somewhat inaccurate misconception.

Unity3D's engine (ie, the real workhorse of any Unity3D game) is written 
in plain old native C++. So not *necessarily* GC (though they might 
still use one internally, I wouldn't know).

Only the game-specific scripts (and I *think* the Unity3D Editor) 
actually run on Mono. And even then, the game scripts *are* able to call 
into C-linkage stuff, which *is* occasionally done to work around 
performance issues within game scripts.

Also, I imagine Mono's GC is probably quite a bit better than D's 
currently is.