I thought Lua was great for games development, the author does not mention it.
Why I Write Games in C
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Re: Why I Write Games in C
#12What about Rust?
my thought. is there enough support for OpenGL? I know you can use stuff from C in Rust, so it could be a solution.
There's also https://github.com/tomaka/glium which seems very promising.
Re: Why I Write Games in C
#13Did anyone break it to him that when he writes C, he is writing C++?
Re: Why I Write Games in C
#14What about Rust?
Is Rust available on consoles? (AFAIK, no)
Is it going to be around? (Who can tell?)
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#15I thought Lua was great for games development, the author does not mention it. http://www.lua.org
Lua is widely used as a scripting layer on top of a game engine. The intense calculations needed to generate a high-fidelity simulation like graphics and physics are usually implemented in the engine in C++, and then the game logic/item behavior/etc. is defined in Lua. I haven't heard of anyone using pure Lua for a whole game, including the engine. It'd be really interesting to see what it looked like if someone did so.
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#16TL;DR Many people is making money doing Unity games, so I ignore it exists - for $1500 - and I go the hipster way and create my own hundreds of memory corruption bugs myself.
If you're going to write a TL;DR for others, you should at least read the article yourself, don't you think?
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#17What about Rust?
I like Rust, but sometimes it is pretty difficult to convince the compiler that one's code is safe. And this does not mean that the compiler is preventing unsafety; there are many safe programs that the compiler rejects.
Also, the OP said that compile time was a priority, and compiling Rust code is closer to C++ speed than C.
Re: Why I Write Games in C
#18I thought Lua was great for games development, the author does not mention it. http://www.lua.org
The author said that garbage collection and non-static-typing were problems. Last I checked Lua has both of those.
Re: Why I Write Games in C
#19The thing I miss most in C when I don't cheat and use a couple C++ features is templates. Specifically, a dynamically sized List implementation that is type-generic.
If you do this in pure C, you have to pick your poison:
1. preprocessor abuse
2. void *
3. multiple redundant implementations of the data structure
Dynamically sized lists are used so often, that this tends to be a problem in almost every C project. I wonder what the author's solution is to this dilemma.
Re: Why I Write Games in C
#20Did anyone break it to him that when he writes C, he is writing C++?
C is not a true subset of C++ so no, when he is writing C he is writing C.