Gaming Languages

[kamikazee]

Every PC and console games programmer I know in person uses C++ nowadays. C# is something Microsoft seem keen to push so some of them are looking into it.

Reminds me of the quote that less then 10% of a typical Windows install is C#.

It’s useful to have skills in a variety of areas but pushing yourself as a jack-of-all-trades is risky. Decide on what you want to mainly do and mention that you can help out in other areas as needed. Being seen as having diverse skills is an advantage: Being seen as having unfocused skills is not.

For a mod team it doesn’t hurt, so go ahead if you want to make one.

[Salteh]

[quote=Shallow]Every PC and console games programmer I know in person uses C++ nowadays. C# is something Microsoft seem keen to push so some of them are looking into it.

Reminds me of the quote that less then 10% of a typical Windows install is C#.[/quote]

That reminds me of the quote that less than 10% of a typical windows install is Moo.
:???:

[iwound]

What would this forum be like without all the insightfull and informative postings from the SD team… :rolleyes:

Less confused.

[kamikazee]

What would this forum be like without all the insightfull and informative postings from the SD team… :rolleyes:

… less than …

If it wasn’t for Salteh, a place with a typing error more! (Not that this matters if one would look at the unreadable posts…)

[Salteh]

I was actually wondering about your… “10% of a typical windows install is c#” thing! wtf do you mean
“10% of school is pencils” ?

[kamikazee]

Ok, I wasn’t too clear there. It’s just that Microsoft uses allmost no C# themselves for their Windows OS, even though they ‘made’ C#.

It was meant as a quote anyway, I just don’t remember who said it where.

[bandit5k]

Ok, I wasn’t too clear there. It’s just that Microsoft uses allmost no C# themselves for their Windows OS, even though they ‘made’ C#.

Which one?
1.0?
2.0?
3.x?
95?
98?
98se?
ME?
NT?
NT 4.0?
2k?
CE?
Mob?
Mob2k3SE?
CE3.0?
CE5.0?
XP Emb?
XP?
2003?
Vista?
:moo:?

[kamikazee]

Sigh Then look it up if you’re so curious… :nag:
But if you think about it, Win 95 and earlier are surely not included, C# was non-existant there.

[Salteh]

Windows Vista!

[Pytox]

Windows Vista!

Vista not ftw

[kamikazee]

Vista not ftw

I think they invented ‘ftl’ to avoid weird phrases like that.

[Sauron_EFG]

Ok, I wasn’t too clear there. It’s just that Microsoft uses allmost no C# themselves for their Windows OS, even though they ‘made’ C#.

They are using it more and more, which is one of the reason Windows keeps bloating up.

Mark Russinovich wrote about performance and memory footprint of managed applications in his blog. Using C# is a bad idea when you want to squeeze out as many FPS as possible.