Was watching a YouTube video, and was pleasantly surprised when Minecraft's lead developer and designer made a (albeit small) mention of D as a possible language for game development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPk6UPVqUJs#t=713

Am Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:57:57 +0000
schrieb "Kelet" <kelethunter@gmail.com>:

> Was watching a YouTube video, and was pleasantly surprised when Minecraft's lead developer and designer made a (albeit small) mention of D as a possible language for game development.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPk6UPVqUJs#t=713

"And then there is a similar language [to C/C++] called D. This is slightly more modern than C++. It has more flexibility in the syntax of the language. I couldn't find very much information on how to make games in D, but if you are really interested in this, I mean if you are really into programming already and want to see something new, then you should look up D, because that's a very interesting language for one that is a nerd like me. Alright, but let's move on to slightly more higher level languages. So we have Java..."

The slide reads:

D

o Also a compiled language
o More modern than C++
o Maybe not mature for game development yet
o To get started: http://dlang.org/

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Marco

> I couldn't find very much information on how to make games in D [...]
They don't know Dgame. :P

Namespace:

>> I couldn't find very much information on how to make games in D [...]
> They don't know Dgame. :P

The point is to make them know.

Bye,
bearophile

On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 12:11:29 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Namespace:
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>>> I couldn't find very much information on how to make games in D [...]
>> They don't know Dgame. :P
>
> The point is to make them know.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

The problem is time, there is never enough time... :/

But my university will see soon how powerful D can be: my bachelor thesis program is written in D. And after that there is maybe enough time to participate on "One game month" (http://www.onegameamonth.com/) with Dgame.