anotherthrwaway

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   by anotherthrwaway 15y ago

   Get used to these kinds of comments. There's a large contingent of people on HN who don't understand that higher level languages (say, Java) are not a complete replacement for C/C++. The same people are behind the "HTML5+Javascript ought to
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   by anotherthrwaway 15y ago

   Yes, but no UDP sockets, which are absolutely essential for multiplayer games. It's ludicrous that a modern networking platform can forgo this essential component.
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   by anotherthrwaway 15y ago

   Exactly. People think that because we can have some completely unimaginative stuff with ideas from the 1980's that HTML5 is ready to be the future of browser gaming. And then when presented with the problem of complex physics, the solution
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   by anotherthrwaway 15y ago

   This is the wrong mindset. Just because you can implemented some specialised idea of video games that dates back more than a decade is nothing to be optimistic about. What about the next innovative idea? There are some things you need raw C
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   by anotherthrwaway 15y ago

   HTML and JavaScript are a real step backward for getting games into the browser. Instead of having a bytecode (or virtualisation of machine code) that is designed for efficiency we get big APIs to do specific things thrown into the browser.