A GC language is a non-starter for a game engine, I thought this was "game development 101" level knowledge. There is a reason every major game engine actually used to make games is written in C++, with some scripting language on top of that for game logic if necessary.

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efskap 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why not respond to the author's justification for it, displayed right on the linked page?

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maccard 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Every game made with Unreal has GC bolted onto it. GC is absolutely viable for shipping games.

	▲	drnick1 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think that's quite true. While Unreal has a GC, it's not used for the low-level components, only for the "user-facing" objects.

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mvdtnz 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The author calls this out and tries to brush it off with FPS figures,

> The current version of the base engine renders extremely fast, faster than most would think a garbage collected language could go. In my testing a release mode build of a game in Unity with nothing but a black background and a cube runs at about 1,600 FPS.

But straight-up FPS is generally not the main concern with GC in a game engine, it's GC pausing which can make an otherwise smooth game feel almost unplayable. I don't know anything about Go so maybe this is less of a concern in that language?

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wredcoll 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Minecraft.

	▲	jedbrooke 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		to be fair minecraft Java edition isn’t exactly known for having great performance. It will run on a potato, but still runs like a potato even on fast hardware. This is also not mentioning that the by far more popular version of the game (by player count) “Minecraft Bedrock edition” is written in C++ precisely for performance reasons on low end mobile hardware