"Paulo Pinto" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Hi, > > just wanted to announce that Sony has finally made the new Playstation > Vita SDK available, as we were discussing some months ago. > > http://www.playstation.com/pss/index_e.html > > The gamming industry seems to be slowing moving to C#. Would we still > be able to convince developers to move to D instead? >
Yes. I suspect that the movement to C# is somewhat of a compromise due to the fact that C/C++ has been the *only* real systems language usable for most gaming systems. Obviously, something better than C++ is needed, and thanks to the moronic VM/interpreted obsessions from the last decade or so that rendered most new languages impotent, there was no real alternative to C++. So, I suspect, that's why they made the compromise of going with C#. But D is *real* systems language, unlike C#. And frankly, it beats the snot out of C#. I'm not just saying that subjectively as D fan: Five years ago (if not less) I considered C# and D tied as my favorite languages. But the more I used both, the more I got fed up with C#'s dumb limitations and MS's disinterest in addressing them, and the more I liked D. If D can't be made to attract game devs away from C++/C#, then I'll loose what little faith I have left in mainstream games development.
