Re: [GD-General] C# versus C++ for game engines

[Parveen K. <pk...@al...>]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 20:03, Mike Wuetherick wrote:
> >
> >
> >If you have the Mono version of the .NET API under Linux, then
> >you can enjoy the same stack unwinding.
> > =20
> >
> except that microsoft has declared that they will be suing and attacking=20
> any attempts at reverse engineering their .net technology...
>=20
> the mono project seems doomed to failure as a result.

There are two seperate issues here.  C# is an ISO standard.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/

I don't know what the point or the benefit of .NET will be to me.  I
don't think MS knows either.  A lot of buzzwords and spin is flying all
over the place.

Writing code in one language, calling it from another language, with a
GUI written in another language.  That's pretty cool.

Garbage collection...big deal.  Been done before, not really beneficial
for most projects that I would be involved in.  I can search google for
"C++ garbage collector" and get tons of hits and choose a GC if I
really, really needed one.  Sure that's kind of a hack...but whatever.=20
But I can also choose to use handles or smart pointers.

There's a lot of cruft in C++ but that's because it's a pretty mature
lanuage.  Java is acquiring cruft.  And C# will acquire cruft as well.

=46rom the projects that I have worked on.  The success of a project
doesn't really depend on the "sexiness" of a language.  It usually
depends on the level of experience the developers have with the chosen
language.  How many C# developers can you find with 10 years of
experience?

Having said all that, I'd consider C# if there were compilers for more
platforms.  That would guarantee it will be around for 10 years or so.=20
But right now, I see it as developers using it as a more powerful
replacement for VB.

A bunch of my friends in business-software land are using C# as a
replacement for Java for apps that aren't expected to be ported.

The big benefit of C# and Java are the big class libraries.  Hopefully
the next C++ standard standardizes a lot of stuff from Boost and other
libraries.  There are benefits to having access to a widely understood,
used, and debugged library.  And you can choose to ignore the library if
you wish.

PK
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