I'm 10+ years as a game developer working largely in UI and I'm just learning JS now to make use of a new framework built by Coherent Labs. Previously the main

I'm 10+ years as a game developer working largely in UI and I'm just learning JS now to make use of a new framework built by Coherent Labs. Previously the main tool set was Scaleform, which makes use of Flash scripting. I don't feel game dev has changed that much. Only very, very recently has it started to change at all. In game dev land it's just C++ or C# if you're a unity shop, and things haven't changed too much. For a long, long time things weren't different at all, but with the new C++11, and C++14 things are getting a bit different. Right now I'm working in a fairly modern codebase, and it's been a learning experience for many of my coworkers to get up to speed on some of the new features introduced with C++14. Probably the biggest change is occurring with the way that games are developed, with Object Oriented development practices kinda going away and games being developed in a more Data Oriented way using Entity Component Systems (ECS). Unity for example currently has an ECS system in preview release. It's been pretty interesting to start learning more of the JS ecosystem. Even though I've only been working at it for a few months I've already had the tea table upended on me by our partners deciding to redo some stuff in typescript, so there's another new thing for me to learn.