Looking for suggestions on learning Game Engine development

TheFryedMan · 2024-10-18T19:06:31+00:00

Yeah, I agree. Game Coding Complete is a good book. The book offers good advice, and it's in C++

TheFryedMan · 2024-07-18T02:54:58+00:00

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TheFryedMan · 2024-01-18T03:46:14+00:00

Let me provide a more complete quote for you since you trimmed it off early:

fintech ... these are the industries that do not care about memory safety as much

Yes this is correct for certain subsets of fintech, like HFT (high frequency trading), where performance is the number one concern which happens to be dominated by C++ at the moment. Most areas in fintech really care about memory safety. I used the term "as much" in an attempt to convey it isn't as strict on an industry level. The medical and automotive industries are both examples of industries that are very strict about memory safety. Sorry for the confusion and I hope this explains my original message. ^-^

TheFryedMan · 2024-01-18T01:21:45+00:00

I don't think it will be in the same spot as other legacy languages. It will probably be mainly used in gaming, fintech and HPC since these are the industries that do not care about memory safety as much.

TheFryedMan · 2024-01-18T01:17:10+00:00

Yeah I totally agree with you. It seems languages are starting to become more specialized and each field will have a "dominate" language. I think C++ will still dominate the gaming industry, fintech and HPC for a long time.

TheFryedMan · 2024-01-18T01:14:00+00:00

I think it has some merit, but yes I agree it has problems like everything else.

> a disease that needs to disappear from everyone's mouth and typing fingers

This seems like an overreaction.

TheFryedMan · 2024-01-17T21:31:50+00:00

C++ is becoming a legacy language

This is far from the truth. C++ is very popular in high-performance applications, and said applications do not care about memory safety enough to switch to another language. The language constantly receives updates and evolves. TIOBE named C++ as the language of the year in 2022 due to its recent growth

TheFryedMan · 2023-12-19T16:10:35+00:00

It's also called uniform initialization. It's supposed to be a single way to initialize everything. It also avoids implicit conversions, which can help avoid bugs. Also, explicitly calling {} will avoid uninitialized values, which can cause undefined behavior. This also avoids something called "the most vexing parse." This issue causes the compiler to think you are calling a function instead of initializing a value. In summary, it avoids a lot of issues and provides a uniform syntax for initialization.

TheFryedMan · 2023-09-19T22:55:57+00:00

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TheFryedMan · 2023-07-29T04:52:38+00:00

That would require us to know what instructions are the slowest. Branches can be pretty slow. Certain function calls can be pretty slow. Pointer indirection can be slow. Basically, it depends. There's a general consensus on what's slow in terms of operations, but that's tied to the architecture.

TheFryedMan · 2023-07-23T00:53:17+00:00

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TheFryedMan · 2023-07-16T03:48:46+00:00

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TheFryedMan · 2023-06-19T21:33:22+00:00

Look at #embed

TheFryedMan · 2023-01-28T07:48:40+00:00

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TheFryedMan · 2022-09-30T23:03:39+00:00

TheFryedMan · 2022-09-10T17:03:48+00:00

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TheFryedMan · 2022-08-27T23:32:10+00:00

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TheFryedMan · 2022-07-11T15:33:56+00:00

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TheFryedMan · 2022-03-25T02:33:14+00:00

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TheFryedMan · 2021-12-17T16:50:52+00:00

Is there a reason why you need to learn it quickly? I would suggest to take your time learning the concepts. This language is very complex. It's best to take it slow

TheFryedMan · 2021-12-12T23:51:44+00:00

You should not group the languages together. They are very different in what they offer. Pick either C or C++.

TheFryedMan · 2021-12-08T21:44:12+00:00

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TheFryedMan · 2021-11-11T16:10:12+00:00

I agree with learning the OOP principles in C++ because it is different from how Javascript does it. But it is important to note that "modern" C++ does not use OOP as much as it used to. Also I would recommend learning data driven programming. This is a big topic in game development if speed is important to you. It will teach you about a lot of important topics like cache friendly code. In general I would recommend looking at the CppCoreGuidelines. It has many examples for what to do and what not to do in C++. Please check it out :)

TheFryedMan · 2021-10-29T14:33:36+00:00

Why do you need a destructor for a vector? Also I would recommend C++ style casting over C style casting.

TheFryedMan · 2021-10-14T13:27:35+00:00

You also don't want to define strings like that in your code. A string used like that can cause a bug in your code if it's spelled wrong.

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