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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by fb03 on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:47AM (#18846069)
Audio software has strict buffer/latency demands which usually cannot be guaranteed on interpreted language platforms.

Doing audio synthesis with JS or any other interpreted language really is totally possible and has been done in a more or less serious way in several implementations and webtoys etc. But if you need extremely low latency and guarantees you cannot go that route, sadly.

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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by mitgraduate on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:49AM (#18846089)
You can always write native extension in c++/rust/c.
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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by thecatspaw on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:54AM (#18846144)
so then why use electron as well if the majority of your code is going to be native anyway?
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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by fb03 on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:56AM (#18846166)
exactly.

the UI is the minority of the code. the main engine is gonna need to be implemented in some language which has strict guarantees about performance. also, not having a garbage collector that fires in a seemingly random way helps a lot too :)

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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by purplerabbit on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:44PM (#18847657)
It's probably a decent way to package your program. And you can use all the glammy JS you want.
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