On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 08:23:40 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 09:54:37 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 00:41:54 UTC, RhyS wrote:
[...]
+1
IMO, D in its current state, and with its current ecosystem,
even after more than a decade of existence, is still NOT the
best alternative to C/C++ where they HAVE to be used
(microcontrollers, game engines, etc), despite D has always
had this objective in mind. And despite C++ is an unsafe
language which makes it easy to have memory leaks, dangling
pointers, etc.
[...]
I might add that the C# 7.x improvements for low level memory
management, and the effort that Unity is doing with their C#
subset (HPC# with Burst compiler toolchain) to migrate core
subsystems from C++ to C#, it gets even harder for adoption in
the games industry.
https://unity3d.com/unity/features/job-system-ECS
Mike Acton and Andreas Fredriksson left Insomianc Games to help
drive this effort.
Mike opinions regarding performance and C vs C++ are very well
known across the gaming industry, and here he is improving C#
performance at Unity.
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Paulo
Yop :)
Orthodox C++ and data-oriented designs are now the basis of most
new game engines since several years.
I'm glad that the Unity management has finally decided to switch
its engin to a more modern archicture, so we can now develop our
games as everybody else in the industry...
