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The Khronos Group, the consortium managing such important projects as OpenGL, WebGPU, OpenAL and Vulkan just announced a major new imitative, the Slang shader language. Khronos Group just made the following tweet: Details from the press release: Beaverton, OR – November 21, 2024 – The Khronos® Group, an open consortium of […]
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Ink is a programming language and set of tools for creating in-game branching dialogs and game narrative creation. It is not only a programming/scripting language and runtime, it is an entire ecosystem of tools and game engine implementations including Godot, Unreal Engine and recently thanks to the open source of
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Miguel De Icaza, the founder of Xamarin and Ximian before that, the creators of the Mono cross platform C# development platform as well as the GNOME Linux desktop, has just brought Swift programming language support to the Godot game engine. Using GDExtension, the Godot 4.x extension mechanism used by other
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If you are creating a game using the Unreal Engine, you currently have two ways to program your game, the relatively low level C++ programming language and the much higher level Blueprint visual programming system. If you want a higher level than C++ language but still desire a high performance
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Presented at CppCon 2022, cppfront by Herb Sutter is an experiment on making a 10x improvement to the C++ programming language by implementing a new, safer, more modern “lessons learned” syntax. Attempts to improve C++ are nothing new, as we saw with Google’s recently announced Carbon programming language. This approach
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Announced a few weeks back at CppNorth developer conference in Toronto, Carbon is a new programming language being primarily developed by Google developers. The goal of Carbon is to provide a successor language to C++, by offering a modern more developer friendly language but also offering bi-directional support for C++,
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In part of our ongoing alternative game development programming languages series, today we are looking at the ODIN programming language. ODIN is a low level data oriented programming language inspired by PASCAL and C with many features making it ideal for game development. The ODIN language is an open source
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Last week, Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio 2022, as well as C# 10, F# 6 and .NET 6. The release marks the first time Visual Studio runs as a 64bit application and it’s available for download now. Details of the release from the Microsoft developer blog: In this
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GitHub have just launched an interesting new AI driven project, GitHub Copilot. GitHub Copilot is developed in collaboration between GitHub and OpenAI and is using artificial intelligence to support the developers. Instead of just being a better Intellisense, Copilot actually creates code dynamically using machine learning, based off comments or
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In our ongoing series of alternative game development capable programming languages, today we are checking out Nim. Nim is a cross platform, open source statically compiled programming language inspired by Pascal and Python with a splash of Haxe-like metaprogramming added on top. From the Nim homepage, Nim is described as:
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