Only crap companies like ID Software use that. What has Quake got on the awesome expressiveness of Flickr, or Facebook or Google Suggest? I mean, just in terms of sheer output, consider that BOTH Flickr and Facebook are able to...display text on a screen! And put jpegs in neat columns in div tags!
Pshaw. What has C++ got on that?
Seriously. Do away with the tunnel vision. When you're talking consumer software, all of the output of all of the languages of the world combined absolutely pale compared with that of C/C++.
Nope. Hand optimized assembly pwns C/C++. And still, ID uses almost none of that. Do they have tunnel vision too?
Flickr and Facebook don't display text on a screen. The web browser does that. What Flickr and Facebook do is serve content to huge amounts of people. In order to scale to these extents, your choice of language is not nearly the most relevant decision.
Also, speed of execution is critical for web companies, while one of id's mottos is "it's done when it's done".
Only crap companies like ID Software use that. What has Quake got on the awesome expressiveness of Flickr, or Facebook or Google Suggest? I mean, just in terms of sheer output, consider that BOTH Flickr and Facebook are able to...display text on a screen! And put jpegs in neat columns in div tags!
Pshaw. What has C++ got on that?
Seriously. Do away with the tunnel vision. When you're talking consumer software, all of the output of all of the languages of the world combined absolutely pale compared with that of C/C++.