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Even more surprising: it's written in C#

• pleb_nz 4y ago
  Why do you think it's surprising it's written in c#?
  • cromka 4y ago
    Previously low performance and a still low popularity?
    • nailuj 4y ago
      C# is quite popular in game dev circles because of the ubiquity of the Unity engine which uses it as its scripting language.
      • airza 4y ago
        Sure, but presumably they did not write an emulator for the switch in the unity engine...
    • pleb_nz 4y ago
      Not sure what your definition or filters are for low popularity but c# and .net in general purpose and application development are very popular according to various developer surveys. Depending on the survey often in the top five to ten. I wouldn't say it's poor performing, definitely not rust, c or c++ capable, but you can write performant code through various tools, processes and optimisations, or bind to libs written in other languages e.g. rust, c++ to have them handle with that must be incredibly performant. Unity is a good example .net C# and C++ working together to deliver a performant solution.
      • cromka 4y ago
        > I wouldn't say it's poor performing Let me reiterate that I meant that it was previously low performing. I've developed in .Net since 2009 but only last few years have brought significant improvements in performance.