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Is .NET Relevant to Game Developers?

Posted by Cliff on from the help-or-hindrance dept.

andrew stuart asks: "We've heard an awful lot about how .NET is the future and how .NET signals the end for COM based Windows development, but how far does this go? Is it really the end of COM? Will ALL Windows programming be done with .NET? What about games development? Will games be developed with .NET? If games aren't developed with .NET and Microsoft is killing COM, then what future for games development on Windows? Will there be DirectX for .NET?"

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  1. .NET is used for game development by Fnagaton · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    For starters you have to use .NET for XBox stuff. :) The optimisation is also better than VC6 so it makes sense to use .NET for games.

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  2. Close Minded People.... by magadass · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You know some of you people have such a closed mind I wonder how you get along in the world. .Net is anything but slow and you cant tell me different. Why can you not tell me different well perhaps because I am speaking from experience and lots of it and real life experience is the ultimate decision maker. If you use DirectX 9 for gaming you will be fine. Lets just say that you can go much further than Java would ever get you... Oh and what do you mean the days when everyone complained java was slow? Java still is shit ass slow!

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