Is C# part of the problem?

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by mazex

From what I understand they use C# for the GUI and the scripting, just like IL2 used Java for the GUI... Most games use a more user friendly language for the scripting like Python (which is rather confusing in a way though ), the thing is that it comes without saying that the scripting part has to be JIT compiled

I'm pretty sure the game itself is coded in C++

Well - my oh my, at this point to not look silly I loaded Reflector to just verify that the core dll:s where C++ dll:s and not .NET and to my amazement the majority are really .NET assemblies, with a small bunch like the SpeedTree dll:s etc written in C++. Hmm, writing the core of a game like this in .NET feels very weird - I actually never thought of it as I was so sure that it was only the GUI and Scripting which felt OK...

A view in reflector of the core.dll that I thought was a C++ dll below... The "WLandscape" class in the image sure is a part of the render code that is in .NET as you can see... Or is it maybe just for the map editor? Nah, no need for "renderSunGlare" there?

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EDIT: Interesting looking at the methods... Like cHQ_forestHeightHere(float x, float y)... Could be used to see if you should crash into a tree without actually checking the 3D tree object itself? And then there are a bunch of unmanaged types returned so there sure is interop going on (naturally)... Needs some more digging on what is done in C++ and what is done in .NET. I really don't understand why someone would come up with the idea to write a game like this in .NET. For an Indie game with no real preformance bottlenecks like Magica - sure. But this?

get it to market faster?, use smaller team? or both. you think this maybe the reason for the micro stutters and leak?

[MadBlaster]

Originally Posted by Thee_oddball

get it to market faster?, use smaller team? or both. you think this maybe the reason for the micro stutters and leak?

This is my fear. I wish I could offer more insight, but I just started reading about programming since January and I never read a C# book. So very newbie. Interesting responses so far.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Didn't the original Il2 Series use Java as it's scripting language? (Though not available to mission designers)

I would have thought that C# would have been a bit more efficient. (Could be wrong though!)