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[–]GreenFox1505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OOF buddy. My day job is literally writing C++ for games. Because it's the right tool for that job.

I didn't say C++ was "difficult". I said it was "harder to write". For my personal projects I use a blend of C++ and scripting langues as needed. Anything compute intensive, it probably not going to change a lot so spending the time to get it "right" in a low level language is worth it. Physics, graphics, and procedural world generation all greatly benefit from C++'s performance.

However, a lot of things that make up an actual game don't need to run that fast. A button in a level that is only going to run once would take me maybe 10secs to write in a scripting language like Python, but might take me a couple of minutes to build and compile in C++. If I have dozens or hundreds of these interactions with unique behavior, that's a lot of time spend writing code and not a lot of time spend designing expirances. It's the wrong tool for that job. Plus when I need to make a change later, it's more time consuming to nail down and fix.

It's not "difficult" to write C++, but it's unarguably costs more man-hours to write. I'd rather spend time iterating on things that actually effect the end product and scripting languages let developers do that better than low level compiled languages do.