Gamedev Lounge 0010

[Bombshell93]

I didn't say it was complicated and I agree if you get good with it, it can be easy to use (kind of the definition of "get good"), I've not used it as much as other languages but I've used it enough to understand it,
BUT the workflow is significantly cleaner in other languages, there are many conventions to using C++
I've seen at least 3 "standards" considered "standard" which quite frankly when working in teams as is common in the games industry, becomes a problem, this is fixed by lots of commenting of course but thats another chunk out of dev time spent explaining whats been done.

Comparing C++ to GML is like comparing a Car to a Horse,
I started out on Game Maker also I then spent some time learning C++ learnt some tricks and a bit around DirectX, after a while of nothing I jumped into XNA learned my way around C# but jumped back into C++ and DirectX every now and then (the only thing that really stopped me was writing model importers ground my gears always getting jammed on how to approach 3D animation, I'd probably get past it as of recently because I've got over my handicap of getting lost in loops)
I've tried a number of other DX wrappers and even some C++ frameworks and I always find it much faster and cleaner working with C#
C++ is very strict and by all means this can work to its advantage but I found it always hindering me and just getting tedious.

Back to my original point I was told by people with far more experience than myself that .NET languages and similar are capable of out performing C++ and that the workflow of C# is cleaner and quicker, given my limited experience I would agree with them.
its not so much about the difficulty of the language its about speed you can develop with it, my entire point is there is no performance to hit (even performance to gain if platforms were optimised for such languages) so there is nothing to lose and development is faster, more team friendly and CLEANER (I'll keep using the word cleaner, because I found another thing to get on my nerves with C++ was the shear amount of files, especially the redundancy of headers which most other languages have managed to avoid needing)

EDIT: Holoe puts it in better words than I