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Is .NET Relevant to Game Developers?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @02:30AM 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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Re:That Giant Sucking Sound... by akadruid · 2003-04-30 03:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

Very true. In the end like many things where there are multiple solutions to a problem, the one that is marketed the best will come to dominate.
When you begin a new project, you have many factors influencing you choice of language, and there may be nothing that is exactly perfect, just choices between different strengths.
A good design can make more difference than the difference between languages anyway.

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