How does Arcen code its games? (Architecture wise)

[x4000]

Yep -- and even in the case of large battles in AI War, doing that in ASM would not be a help.  That's as much data-bound as it is CPU-bound.  It's "CPU bound when doing calculations on massive amounts of data," not one algorithm that is so intensive on a small amount of data.  There's a big difference there in terms of what approaches are then valid.

[Mánagarmr]

C# wasn't Microsoft's idea, they just had the first mainstream implementation.  The version of C# we use is actually Mono, which is open source and as portable and free as you can possibly get.

I didn't actually know that C# wasn't Microsofts idea, seeing as how it was so tied into .NET. Though I did ofc know about Mono. I've used Mono a couple of times to get .NET stuff running on my Linux boxes.

Java isn't as baby steps as you can get, either: there's always Ruby or Javascript or Python.   Not that those languages can't be incredibly useful and powerful, but they are generally simpler and less verbose than Java.

I was never a fan of Javascript, mostly due to how much webpages gets messed up by poorly written Javescript .

[x4000]

According to wikipedia it was Microsoft's idea, but I don't think that's quite accurate.

This guy basically thought of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg

And he brought a lot of his notes to MS and the first working implementation was made there.  And then later an EMCA standard was released for it.

[The Mimic]

All this time I figured C# was tied to Microsoft, as well. I'm glad to see Mono is so effective.

Egads! Javascript. That was the first language I learned to write code in, and it was like shooting myself in the foot. I had to unlearn so many strange concepts I had about programming when I stepped into C++. And from there I went into Python, and then Java, so I didn't do anything in the right order at all. Python remains my favorite to use.

On that note, here's a fun thing poking fun at languages, primarily Javascript. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat/

[x4000]

On that note, here's a fun thing poking fun at languages, primarily Javascript. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat/

That is made of awesome.

[tigersfan]

On that note, here's a fun thing poking fun at languages, primarily Javascript. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat/

I nearly choked I laughed so hard at that. Thanks for sharing.

[Aklyon]

Unexpected Batman joke is best batman.