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arbiter0xf / neorogue

A dungeon crawler

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Switch to using C and Vulkan #41

Open arbiter0xf opened 1 year ago

arbiter0xf commented 1 year ago

Why C?

Less features when compared to C++
- Get powerful functionality from libraries instead of language.
- Less new features get introduced to the language also. The pace of change is more soothing.
- Interested in learning programming in-depth. With C++, having the feeling that need to learn vast amounts of high level features before moving into details. Without classes provided by the language, need to come up with another way of organizing data and logic.
  - Can possibly draw inspiration from: https://github.com/nathancharlesjones/Comparison-of-OOP-techniques-in-C/tree/main
- Hoping for debugging to be faster in C. Typing is more simple out-of-the-box.
The language has a standard.
Portable ((?) not so experienced in this)
Many impressive programs have been written in C.
High <> for optimization.
Can be used to interface Vulkan.

Why Vulkan?

Cross-platform
Naturally allows learning a bunch about graphics hardware. I do not have any experience in this yet.

arbiter0xf commented 3 months ago

Based on experience gained on neotetris, it may be preferable to stick with SDL. There is already a primitive sprite sheet support on neorogue and implementing the same in Vulkan would take a while.