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Rendering text at 60fps is a far cry from rendering a dynamic scene at 60fps. Any examples of this being used for something non-trivial? I'm generally curious because I figured Golang would be a no-go due to the GC...
Huh? Tons of GC languages are used for games. Heck, web games use JS. Not to mention the whole C#/Unity thing that even powers AAA games...
Rendering text at 60fps is a far cry from rendering a dynamic scene at 60fps. Any examples of this being used for something non-trivial? I'm generally curious because I figured Golang would be a no-go due to the GC...
> ? I'm generally curious because I figured Golang would be a no-go due to the GC... Huh? Tons of GC languages are used for games. Heck, web games use JS. Not to mention the whole C#/Unity thing that even powers AAA games...
Rendering text at 60fps is a far cry from rendering a dynamic scene at 60fps. Any examples of this being used for something non-trivial? I'm generally curious because I figured Golang would be a no-go due to the GC...
Go’s GC is extremely low latency and you can pretty easily avoid allocating using the same techniques as you would in C++.
As a practical example, capturing variables in a closure will usually cause them to be heap allocated in Go, but in C++ capturing has no effect on variable storage.
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> ? I'm generally curious because I figured Golang would be a no-go due to the GC... Huh? Tons of GC languages are used for games. Heck, web games use JS. Not to mention the whole C#/Unity thing that even powers AAA games...
Yeah that's true but I disagree it's a good idea. Most AAA shops still use non-GC languages because they need the full control/cannot waste ms on random GC pass.
Rendering text at 60fps is a far cry from rendering a dynamic scene at 60fps. Any examples of this being used for something non-trivial? I'm generally curious because I figured Golang would be a no-go due to the GC...
Rendering text at 60fps is a far cry from rendering a dynamic scene at 60fps. Any examples of this being used for something non-trivial? I'm generally curious because I figured Golang would be a no-go due to the GC...
I'm close to implementing hot code update -- in my Go game servers!
Rendering text at 60fps is a far cry from rendering a dynamic scene at 60fps. Any examples of this being used for something non-trivial? I'm generally curious because I figured Golang would be a no-go due to the GC...
> ? I'm generally curious because I figured Golang would be a no-go due to the GC... Huh? Tons of GC languages are used for games. Heck, web games use JS. Not to mention the whole C#/Unity thing that even powers AAA games...
It's a fight against the GC typically
It's great to see things happening in the Golang/2D gaming space, but having looked at your Github page and website, I have no idea what the value proposition of your framework is. There's an example featuring a text editor on the front page (how does this relate to gaming?), and nothing telling me what I'd get out of adopting Strife. Have a look at the https://phaser.io/ for an example of solid marketing around a ga…
To be honest, the project is kind of mimicking Slick2D which is a simple Java framework that introduced me into graphics programming in the first place. My kind of dream project here is to maybe make a little tutorial series on how to use the library making a small game with it. Maybe inspire a few young people to get into graphics/game programming to show how simple it is - in the go domain specifically. The library…
Rendering text at 60fps is a far cry from rendering a dynamic scene at 60fps. Any examples of this being used for something non-trivial? I'm generally curious because I figured Golang would be a no-go due to the GC...
The biggest problem with doing CPU-intensive work in Go is not the latency of the GC but rather the lack of maturity of the optimization pipeline compared to GCC and LLVM, the lack of good support for things like SIMD, the relatively poor throughput of the GC, the large overhead of cgo (which matters quite a lot for graphics!), etc.
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To be honest, the project is kind of mimicking Slick2D which is a simple Java framework that introduced me into graphics programming in the first place. My kind of dream project here is to maybe make a little tutorial series on how to use the library making a small game with it. Maybe inspire a few young people to get into graphics/game programming to show how simple it is - in the go domain specifically. The library…
Honestly, I’d love to see a project like GoRails but for game programming, maybe with quarterly topics on eg making a FPS, RTS, etc. I would definitely pay a subscription for that.