Ask HN: I'll die about 2068, will most games still be written in C/C++?

Re:Ask HN: I'll die about 2068, will most games still be wri... by NightWalknStoic on Sunday November 13, 2016 @03:08PM (#12945345)

Yeah, not really, the engine aka Unity or Unreal is still written in C/C++. Also, any game that requires performance that doesn't use one of these pre-made engines such as Factorio or Prison Architect, still requires C/C++ at it's core, but can use Lua or something for gameplay.

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Re:Ask HN: I'll die about 2068, will most games still be wri... by zachlatta on Sunday November 13, 2016 @04:16PM (#12945713)

> Yeah, not really, the engine aka Unity or Unreal is still written in C/C++.

That's kind of like saying that most websites are written in C/C++ because that's that the browsers are written in.

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Re:Ask HN: I'll die about 2068, will most games still be wri... by paulddraper on Sunday November 13, 2016 @04:37PM (#12945819)

Exactly. The question is what language at game developers working in. I mean, at the end if the day, everything's machine code.

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