jbubriski's Journal: Is most game development done in C++? What about C#?

I've been searching for a game programming book on Amazon, but it looks like the majority of them are for C++ developers. The only C# books I saw were beginner's books, and they seemed dated, and not that useful, judging by the ratings. Is there a reason there aren't many C# game programming books? Does this have something to do with the language? Is C++ better for game programming? What about XNA? That seems to work exclusively with Visual Studio C# Express Edition, and it looks like there are some books coming out at the tail end of this year for it. Thoughts?

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[jbubriski]

"as the MS bullshit is only for PC's and XBOX360"

Isn't that a pretty large subset of the industry? Or are most of the PC games written in C++ and OpenGL?

Yes, most games are done in C or C++.

[mark-t]

Because C and C++ are unmanaged, while C# and .NET are managed. Management introduces overhead that is usually unacceptable in a game that needs to squeeze every last cycle out of the cpu.

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[jbubriski]

I see! Thanks for the info.