On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 07:11:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Here's the deal: there is no such thing as a general purpose
(system) language in the empirical sense. We might have been
lead to believe that C or C++ were general purpose, but that
only happend because there were no visible viable alternatives.
C is more and more becoming a kernel/embedded language, C++ is
more and more becoming a legacy/niche language. C++ is only a
game dev language after you add various extensions (e.g. simd).
It is only a number-crunching language after you add some other
extensions. So you need a direction in the feature set towards
an application area.
Would you call python a gamedev language?
