Re:Google is developing its own Android game console - Report
by pcwalton on Friday June 28, 2013 @03:15AM
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It's hard to read into a tweet, but I'm pretty sure that he was not saying that the performance of a dynamically typed, garbage collected language will be equivalent to the performance of optimized, tuned C and C++.
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Re:Google is developing its own Android game console - Report
by pjmlp on Friday June 28, 2013 @04:06AM
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No, if you follow his tweeter feed, he means he would like to have GC strong typed language with the performance from C and C++.
This follows his ongoing Haskell experiments and with a short deviation to Scheme/Lisp.
I was just trying to make the point that known game developers do value GC languages for game development, even if nowadays that is still not mainstream.
I am old enough to remember the days C was considered too slow and together with Pascal was just used for prototyping ideas, if ever. Times change.