They rewrote the Doom game engine in Java a long time ago. If was faster than the original. GC was not an issue, and Go GC pauses now are a lot lower than Javas was then.
> On Jul 8, 2019, at 6:55 AM, Jesper Louis Andersen > <jesper.louis.ander...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 11:22 AM Martin Schnabel <m...@mb0.org> wrote: > >> I would guess, that most of respondents using go for game development, >> use it on the server side. Think multi-, browser- or mobile-games. >> > > Many modern games have considerable server side code bases as well for all > kinds of things. And if you are a major popular game, you easily have 100_000 > concurrent users on your platform. A lot of the work here doesn't even > require low-latency operation as long as you can stay within certain > parameters, so a 10ms pause here and there is probably acceptable. More > involved stuff such as physics simulation in the "cloud" could also be doable > given the low-pause GC Go employs. > > I think there are some good explanations of e.g., the cloud infrastructure of > Elite Dangerous out there. I think it is mostly C# or PHP (can't remember), > but it doesn't look like something you couldn't write in Go. Halo used C# and > the "Orleans" model. That also screams a Goroutine-like solution is possible > with a little bit of work. > > So I think there are many good reasons for using something like Go in modern > game development, albeit not on the client side, yet (where C++ and Lua tends > to reign supreme). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAGrdgiUg0ecWWAnTrtWBB2HFcTzyRvPDtKSMWpZuH%2BHBPc4rYg%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/F717A7B4-3D3D-4ACE-B36E-C27FDBAECA19%40ix.netcom.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
