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> but I would really hate to have to write Linux specific bindings for a game What are you upset about? You’re worried people will target windows to target ste

> but I would really hate to have to write Linux specific bindings for a game What are you upset about? You’re worried people will target windows to target steam? Or worried people will…target Linux?

novagameco 3y ago
I'm worried that SteamOS would make Linux to default target and game development platform and that a lot of tooling would shift in the direction of Unix-likes and the Windows + DirectX ecosystem would wither as a result. I want windows to continue to be a good platform for game development and not have to move over to an ecosystem I find really grating
- ShamelessC 3y ago
  That’s a bold strategy. We’ll see if it works out for you.
- rfl890 3y ago
  It's not like everyone's going to switch to Linux immediately. I think Windows will stay on desktop for a while. On a side note, what about Windows APIs do you like? I always thought they were a disorganized mess.
  - novagameco 3y ago
    Within DirectX I like the usage of types compared to OpenGL, where everything is GLuint. I like the explicit management of state and the use of views on resources to bind the same memory to different contexts. I vastly prefer HLSL to GLSL also. I know there's vulkan, but my experience was going to DirectX 11 from OpenGL 3+ Within Win32, it's similar though there's an overuse of HANDLEs. I like initializing things as structs and I like that ComPtrs provide built in memory management. A lot of posix APIs feel underpowered (semantically designed around reading files from tapes), and Microsoft often provides a safe _s version of most of them (Yes, some of which are part of the C standard library and some of which are not). There are various Win32 APIs I like (IOCP, for example), and it's all tied together with MSVC and the static analyzers available to the compiler (SAL). I don't think GCC has anything even close to SAL. I also haven't found a C++ IDE I like nearly as much as Visual Studio. I used to hate jetbrains UI but I actually tried IntelliJ recently and they redesigned the entire thing to be quite nice now, so maybe clion is nice (but I'm not willing to pay for it). I also VASTLY prefer powershell to bash

novagameco 3y ago

I'm worried that SteamOS would make Linux to default target and game development platform and that a lot of tooling would shift in the direction of Unix-likes and the Windows + DirectX ecosystem would wither as a result. I want windows to continue to be a good platform for game development and not have to move over to an ecosystem I find really grating

ShamelessC 3y ago
That’s a bold strategy. We’ll see if it works out for you.
rfl890 3y ago
It's not like everyone's going to switch to Linux immediately. I think Windows will stay on desktop for a while. On a side note, what about Windows APIs do you like? I always thought they were a disorganized mess.
- novagameco 3y ago
  Within DirectX I like the usage of types compared to OpenGL, where everything is GLuint. I like the explicit management of state and the use of views on resources to bind the same memory to different contexts. I vastly prefer HLSL to GLSL also. I know there's vulkan, but my experience was going to DirectX 11 from OpenGL 3+ Within Win32, it's similar though there's an overuse of HANDLEs. I like initializing things as structs and I like that ComPtrs provide built in memory management. A lot of posix APIs feel underpowered (semantically designed around reading files from tapes), and Microsoft often provides a safe _s version of most of them (Yes, some of which are part of the C standard library and some of which are not). There are various Win32 APIs I like (IOCP, for example), and it's all tied together with MSVC and the static analyzers available to the compiler (SAL). I don't think GCC has anything even close to SAL. I also haven't found a C++ IDE I like nearly as much as Visual Studio. I used to hate jetbrains UI but I actually tried IntelliJ recently and they redesigned the entire thing to be quite nice now, so maybe clion is nice (but I'm not willing to pay for it). I also VASTLY prefer powershell to bash