On Monday, November 19, 2012 12:55:11 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/19/2012 12:28 PM, Rob T wrote:
> > In any case, the point is that I don't think the D community should
> > overlook what the game devs are doing, they're pushing D to its limits
> > and are making D more visible than perhaps anyone.
>
> I agree.
>
> I might also point out that adoption of a language (or any new technology)
> often happens because it solves a problem for an otherwise overlooked
> niche, and their adoption of it drives it into the mainstream.

I don't disagree at all. I just find it interesting how many things that the
game devs keep coming up with that they consider critical that most of the
rest of us haven't ever even considered and frequently know absolutely nothing
about.

Dunno what to tell you.

Gamedev is a strange union of 3-4-5 very distinct fields of programming, each with their own set of requirements, and often just the interaction between them is an interesting problem in its self.

Engine programming is the most critical though, with virtually no room for compromise. D needs to be competitive in that space if it hopes to dislodge C/C++, and it's not far off.