D for Game Development

[Brandon Ragland via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 14:44:30 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 14:18:21 UTC, Brandon Ragland 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 13:44:41 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 13:43:35 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>>>> D is really cool and makes a good candidate for developing a 
>>>> game. Are there any guys out there using D for indie games?
>>>>
>>>> For some time I have been seeing some cool game engine being 
>>>> developed in the DUB repo. What more is happening? I don't 
>>>> see derelictSDl and derelictSFML activities much. Whatup?
>>>
>>> GC's up.
>>
>> Minecraft, written in java which has a GC does perfectly fine.
>>
>> A GC is not a reason a game cannot be developed.
>>
>> Look at how many browser-based games there are, which use a GC 
>> somewhere from the interpreted Flash or JS.
>
> Minecraft is a dog though ... I always have to kill my kids 
> ongoing game
> if I ever want to do any real work on the same machine.

It's a dog because Java is a dog. But that's not because of the 
GC.

It's not really that bad either, I can open up Minecraft at any 
time and have it sit in the background quietly using ~800Mb ram 
and virtually no cpu time.

Either your kid has tons of mods in their Minecraft or your 
computer is a bit dated.