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DF General Discussion / Re: The DF Map Archive
« on: September 26, 2007, 01:33:00 pm »quote:
Originally posted by Eagle of Fire:
<STRONG>I am intrigued, though, why does people who make some programs for fun (and thus are not professinals who do that all the time) always either use Flash, Java, or something which require that .net thing. All external programs which need to be installed on a computer prior to use.</STRONG>
Java/.NET don't require the programmer to manage memory as intricately as languages like C/C++, among other things. With a tradeoff against performance, which for most applications isn't a problem at all considering how fast computers are these days.
Also:
quote:is just laughable, especially considering your suggestion:
<STRONG>And which are security risks for computers (well, I am guessing the .net thing is one too).</STRONG>
quote:Which is a much greater security risk than flash could ever be.
<STRONG>I guess I'm just wondering why we just don't see some standard executables (.exe) files for things such as the map archive or another other fan made programs anymore...</STRONG>
And your point about new games being more buggy because of .NET/Java/whatever is pretty much moot considering most new (large, commercial) games still don't use a managed language because of the performance hit.