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Is there any possibility of the video game industry market shifting toward C# in forseeable future? I emailed Aras, lead graphics programmer at Unity technolog

by z3phyr 14y ago

Is there any possibility of the video game industry market shifting toward C# in forseeable future? I emailed Aras, lead graphics programmer at Unity technology. He replied that C++ in video game industry, esp in game engines is indispensible, and it will remain the standard in long forseeable future. I also sent an email to Mike Abrash at valve, and he replied that there is no movement away from C++.

UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
> Is there any possibility of the video game industry market shifting toward C# in forseeable future? No chance at all. It offers nothing that C/C++ doesn't already. It has no game libraries written for it at all. It is largely unsupported on non-Windows platforms (e.g. Android, Linux, Mac, etc). Best case scenario: The XBox 720 allows "apps" to be written in C# and sold to end-users. So C# becomes the de-facto indie game language of the XBox 720 (as in mini-games, not full AAA titles).