[General] Emulating?

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Originally Posted by Daevius

I always loved ANSI C for home projects. It's fast and has a lot of tricks to make it quick (pointers for instance). That makes me feel cool :P

I've been working on C++ for half a year now. For game development its the most used language. Why? Many people master it, and the games have huge code bases of C++ code. So maybe some would switch to C#, but Java?

Java is slow my friend:
Java vs. C++
Nine Language Performance Round-up: Benchmarking Math & File I/O

Since C is not managable for large projects (hardly), so I moved to C++. It's nice, especially to make things public (you can easily use it in new projects because of the classes) or to work with in a team.

I'm sure C# is a good alternative, though its build for windows, so making it portable would never be as fast as intended. Also, I guess C# isn't open-source, which is a huge disadvantage on most fronts.

Don't ever start with .NET

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now please stop trolling
java 1.1 ?
Classic VM, JDK-1.2.2-001
what is this ?
i speak about the current java versions 1.5+ (as i clearly stated)
2 benchmarks agaisnt what 10 i posted ?
you at least answered to one of my points ?
how about the challenge i offered ?
ever heard of jet ?
excelsior ?
gcj maybe ?
so far it looks like trolling to me -.-

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Originally Posted by Daevius

I'm sure C# is a good alternative, though its build for windows, so making it portable would never be as fast as intended. Also, I guess C# isn't open-source, which is a huge disadvantage on most fronts.
Don't ever start with .NET

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wow you have no clue what you are talking about o.O
you maybe heard of suse linux, its main admin tool yast is coded in C# OMG
how is this possible ?
Main Page - Mono

you talk about java 1.2
.net not avaible on other plattforms
sorry but this cant be serious :S

Sorry I won't take the challenge. I have exams coming up and I don't have the right tools (you might be right that MingW isn't the best one out there, its just the first I took and it works great).

As for Java. I've never tried it or benchmarked it myself, so I can't say much. It's just that I've heard a lot of negative response about it of professional programmers. It's better then most languages, and its highly portable, that is true. Maybe Java has become much better since the last time I checked it.

But I think the point is made clear to the author (gone a bit offtopic, yes I'm guilty too). Therefore, its better to close this as it will not serve the OP anymore.