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661 :: Nim for game development

• jgoodgive (orginal) [2014-12-10T17:37:50+01:00] view original

  Has anyone tried Nim for game development?

  I was watching Jonathan Blows streams on language design for game development, and he has many greate ideas (not that I am qualified to judge either way) and I think many of his ideas seems to be implemented in Nim. Still there might be interesting idéas to get there to get Nim as a language for game developers.

  Jonathans channel on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuoqzrsHlwv1YyPKLuMDUQ

  J

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• Varriount (orginal) [2014-12-11T18:30:22+01:00] view original

  I've followed an opengl tutorial in nim. I'll see if I can find the code on my computer.

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• jgoodgive (orginal) [2014-12-13T22:28:44+01:00] view original

  I have a project where i follow an SDL2 game book and write it all in Nim, I was also thinking of converting the HandmadeHero stream by Casey M. to Nim. But as of yet I have no first hand experience on how Nim compares when doing games.

  When I know ill tell about it.

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• Demos (orginal) [2014-12-14T01:19:40+01:00] view original

  I have written some code in Nim that does graphics. It was quite nice. I even managed to wrap Direct3D 11, although the interface is super messy right now. Gamedev is one of the things that nim excels at but unfortunately C++ has vast quantities of inertia in that area.

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• jgoodgive (orginal) [2014-12-16T23:49:28+01:00] view original

  @Demos Well there are some reasonably noteable game devs out there seriously looking at alternatives. Maybe since it is so easy to mix and match with c libs we could find a spot in there where even the entrenched c++ ppl would venture a try.

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