[Semi OT] Language for Game Development talk

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/26/2014 2:11 AM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 08:59:04 UTC, po wrote:
>>  I've worked with people who think exactly like him. They are generally
>> somewhat older, and started programming games in the 80/90's. I was not
>> impressed by the coding ability of the individuals I met who had this mentality.
>
> I'm not surprised, but if you are going to create a language for current
> practices you have to cater to whatever the practice is. They are probably less
> eager to relearn how to use C/C++.
>
> I also think many just don't want to attempt to deal with C++ std:: libs, due to
> bad experience with them in the past. So they use their own stuff instead.

I can understand the attitude. I tend to do the same thing. Including invent 
another programming language :-)