02-10-2013, 10:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-10-2013, 10:27 AM by Bombshell93.)
but my point is that relates little to game development.
the engineers of graphical API's need to stick close to the hardware (in this case CUDA and OpenCL I'm counting as graphical API's as they do heavily interact with the graphics hardware.)
Massive performance is not needed for games themselves, but rather their physics and graphics, which both run on the graphics device through said API's in ideal systems, so the need to get down and dirty is not there in game development.
My point was Game Engines of which use hardware API's are written in C++ because they always have been, but more and more C++ is becoming obsolete, it can be a chore to work with at the best of times, the chore to which is fixed in slightly higher level languages, fixed so well in fact that in most cases significantly smart use of C++ is needed to outperform it, of which would eat into development time.
C++ isn't necessarily bad, everything built on it in the industry is doing well, it doesn't need to go away. But if platforms (Consoles specifically) were to be designed with just for example the .NET framework in mind, engines built aimed at the platform would develop faster and cleaner, because of easier to understand conventions it would be simpler to work in groups, with less lower level access the underlying systems to said platforms can run safer (such was microsofts mentality with XNA) and thanks to simple stack tracing a memory managing, pin-pointing and eradicating bugs is also a lot easier, all in all it would make game development easier and faster (which by extension would make it cheaper)
This is just my opinion and for all I know if this were to happen it may not make such an impact, but I think this would be the next big stride in game development, first it was more processing power, then it was the rapid advancement of 3D, recently its been mobile gaming and I think the next step to change the industry will be a jump from C++ into slightly higher level languages, its better for developers, studios, publishers, engineers, hardware developers and ultimately the end user.
the engineers of graphical API's need to stick close to the hardware (in this case CUDA and OpenCL I'm counting as graphical API's as they do heavily interact with the graphics hardware.)
Massive performance is not needed for games themselves, but rather their physics and graphics, which both run on the graphics device through said API's in ideal systems, so the need to get down and dirty is not there in game development.
My point was Game Engines of which use hardware API's are written in C++ because they always have been, but more and more C++ is becoming obsolete, it can be a chore to work with at the best of times, the chore to which is fixed in slightly higher level languages, fixed so well in fact that in most cases significantly smart use of C++ is needed to outperform it, of which would eat into development time.
C++ isn't necessarily bad, everything built on it in the industry is doing well, it doesn't need to go away. But if platforms (Consoles specifically) were to be designed with just for example the .NET framework in mind, engines built aimed at the platform would develop faster and cleaner, because of easier to understand conventions it would be simpler to work in groups, with less lower level access the underlying systems to said platforms can run safer (such was microsofts mentality with XNA) and thanks to simple stack tracing a memory managing, pin-pointing and eradicating bugs is also a lot easier, all in all it would make game development easier and faster (which by extension would make it cheaper)
This is just my opinion and for all I know if this were to happen it may not make such an impact, but I think this would be the next big stride in game development, first it was more processing power, then it was the rapid advancement of 3D, recently its been mobile gaming and I think the next step to change the industry will be a jump from C++ into slightly higher level languages, its better for developers, studios, publishers, engineers, hardware developers and ultimately the end user.