On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 11:00:19 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Well, there are lots of Geometry Wars clones in XNA and LibGDX.
The point is more this: the majority of interactive applications
you can do easily in Java/C#/Swift/Javascript are going to be
written in those languages for _very_ good reasons. I would too.
If desktop applications are a target then you need a feature set
that makes it easier to write those applications that are
difficult to do well in Java/C#/Swift/Javascript.
That makes you an attractive platform for new application
frameworks.
As for Vulkan, I have the strong feeling it is DOA, with Apple,
Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft favoring they own APIs.
It takes years before you get full adoption after standardization.
Vulkan/Metal does not matter. What matters is that you do better
CPU/GPU integration for common hardware than the competing
solutions. It could be just latest generation of iOS/OSX for a
start. That alone is a pretty big market.
