| ▲ | pjmlp 11 hours ago | |
They did, hence Boo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo_(programming_language) I would argue that C# has always been a good alternative for games, starting with Arena Wars, the problem was Microsoft not being serious about AOT or low level programming, because that was left for C++/CLI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_Wars Here is the person responsible for pushing XNA, even though management wasn't into it. "The billion dollar decision that launched XNA" https://youtu.be/wJY8RhPHmUQ?si=_3pic4pEiOlqQzvm When she left Microsoft, XNA was promptly replaced by DirectXTK, because C++ is the only true way for DirectX team, | ||