Re: My thoughts on C# and gaming.

Raymond Barbiero <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.sweng
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Job listings might not ask for C# proficiency now, but that doesn't mean
they won't in the future!

C# wasn't a viable language to use on the Xbox 360 and PS3 until Mono
achieved ahead of time compiling. It is inevitable we will see an increased
adoption rate of CIL based languages in games. I wouldn't be surprised to
see games using something like VMKit to translate MSIL or Java bytecode (or
maybe even LUA bytecode someday) -> LLVM IR -> ahead of time compiled
machine code in the future. At that point the only thing that will matter
is: which language will give you the best productivity gain given your
problem domain?

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Brandon Van Every <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Douglas Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I will say that we have had several times the number of applicants with
> C#
> > experience vs Lua.
>
> Do your job listings tend to ask for C# and not Lua?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every
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-- 
Raymond "VisualPhoenix" Barbiero
Programmer
EA Montreal

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