Re: My thoughts on C# and gaming.

On 12 February 2010 01:42, Brandon Van Every <[email protected]> wrote:

> So to reference the original chain of thought in this thread, you're
> saying that those 10 guys all know **C#**, so that's why you're gonna
> use it to script?  Didn't we just get done establishing that C# is not
> so popular in the game industry?  You have 10 "tools guys" lying
> around that used to do biz apps or something?  Meanwhile, Lua is the
> dominant scripting language of the game industry by a wide margin.
>
> http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MarkDeLoura/20090302/581/The_Engine_Survey_General_results.php
>  Seems to me this whole "waste of money" idea is a strawman.  Unless
> your studio really does just churn out C# titles all day long.
>

What's popularity got to do with it? How are you going to innovate if you
follow the herd? 10 years ago noone had heard of Lua. Are you going to tell
me Naughty Dog they are idiots for using Lisp?

I think the fact that EA might have 10 engineers with jointly, maybe 20-40
years of C# experience probably has a big effect on the decision. There are
lots more C# fanbois than Lua fanbois (although I'm not saying this is the
case here). If you have a lot of domain specific knowledge, why would you
disregard that and start with nothing?

If we followed your logic we should all be writing games in Java.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

Nick

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