On 04/22/2011 02:55 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Many thanks for the links, they provide very nice discussions.
Specially the link below, that you can follow from your first link,
http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2011/04/2011-current-and-future-programming.html
But in what concerns game development, D2 might already be too late.
I know a bit of it, since a live a bit on that part of the universe.
Due to XNA(Windows and XBox 360), Mono/Unity, and now WP7, many game studios
have started to move their tooling into C#. And some of them are nowadays
even using
it for the server side code.
Java used to have a foot there, specially due to the J2ME game development,
with a small
push thanks to Android. Which decreased since Google made the NDK available.
If one day Microsoft really lets C# free, the same way AT&T somehow did
with C and C++, then C#
might actually be the next C++, at least in what game development is
concerned.
And the dependency on a JIT environment is an implementation issue. The
Bartok compiler in Singularity
compiles to native code, and Mono also provides a similar option.
So who knows?
--
Paulo
I don't think C# is the next C++; it's impossible for C# to be what
C/C++ is. There is a purpose and a place for Interpreted languages like
C# and Java, just like there is for C/C++. What language do you think
the interpreters for Java and C# are written in? (Hint: It's not Java or
C#.) I also don't think that the core of Unity (or any decent game
engine) is written in an interpreted language either, which basically
means the guts are likely written in either C or C++. The point being
made is that Systems Programming Languages like C/C++ and D are picked
for their execution speed, and Interpreted Languages are picked for
their ease of programming (or development speed). Since D is picked for
execution speed, we should seriously consider every opportunity to
improve in that arena. The OP wasn't just for the game developers, but
for game framework developers as well.
