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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 01:34:35 +0000 (UTC)
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>> C and C++ are still heavily used in general use cases, from embedded
>> to UI and Game Dev, etc.
> 
> Embedded is a niche, UI should be done in other languages these days,
> and game dev is somewhat special because it's often realtime.  One of
> the most successful games (Minecraft) was written in Java though, lots
> of games use a combination of C++ and Lua, and there's this:
> https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/sweeny.pdf

I happen to believe that Ada is perfect for games. I'm producing the
current SDL2 bindings. I have a GL generator that just needs to generate
the GL bindings now. I will be binding Vulkan once it's out and I have a
project in mind to prove my ideas.

Luke