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• Julio Parra

  David Weller wrote:

  Yes, it's definitely possible now to write a DirectX game in COBOL!

  
  
  Wow, that's disturbing.  If it was freely available, I'd be tempted to port some of my tutorials to COBOL.  Morbid curiosity can take you a long way.
  

• SJVCT

  Language/platform of choice can be a fairly "religeous" choice amongst many programmers - so you'll be lucky to get many genuinely objective answers
  
  It is worth realising that DirectX is used by a LOT of professional developers, and that two factors can be important to them that might not be for "indie" developers:
  
  1. Cross-Platform. Writing games for the consoles as well as Windows often plays a big part in choosing the tools that are used. Especially for consoles, C++ is currently a better bet than .Net
  
  2. Existing tools and skills. Many companies will have a huge codebase of libraries, utilities, processes (etc..) as well as staff who are trained and experienced in those technologies. C++ is somewhat older than .Net (first appeared 3yrs ago), so established C++ skills and tools are much more common.
  
  Bottom line is that if you're smart you'll pick the right tools for the right job. If MDX does what you want/need then by all means go use it!
  
  I'm looking to push C# and MDX as the language for a future (major) project I might be involved in, but currently I'm using C++ for my own personal projects as well as professional stuff...
  
  MDX seems to be increasing in popularity, but don't expect to see C++ disappear anytime soon...
  
  hth
  Jack
  
  
  

• tpiazza55

  I'd never say that managed development is superceding unmanaged development.  The benefit here is that we are offering you a choice.  Before the CLR came along, you pretty much had one choice: C/C++ (with a nod to VB peeps that used a COM interface).  Now you can use any CLR-compliant language you want, in addition to C/C++.  Yes, it's definitely possible now to write a DirectX game in COBOL!
  
  
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