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Even though the C language has been around for over 50 years, it continues to be incredibly popular. There are however missing features of a “modern” higher level programming languages such as C++, C#, Rust and more that haven’t been addressed by updated C versions. Zen C steps in to
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We first talked about the Beef Programming Language back in 2020 and it presented an exciting opportunity for game developers, offering high level language features of the C# programming language, but without the garbage collector that can be problematic for games. In addition to an open source programming language, it
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Today we have compiled a list of the best C# game engines and game frameworks (and some popular C# bindings) for game development in 2025. This is the final in a series of posts exploring the game engine options available for the most popular programming languages. We have a Python Game
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Today we have compiled a list of the best Haxe game engines and game development frameworks (and a few miscellaneous game development options) for game development in 2025. This is the fourth in a series of posts exploring the game engine options available for the most popular programming languages. We
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An update on our 2020 guide to Godot game engine programming options today we look at the up to date and under active development programming language options for Godot developers. This list is composed mostly of GDExtension based projects for adding various programming language support to the Godot game engine.
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NESFab is a “new” programming language for a very old platform, the Nintendo Entertainment System. It provides a C-like programming language but offers closer to assembly level performance. In fact NESFab claims to be the fast compiled programming language for the NES hardware (including the 6502 processor). NESFab is an
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There is a new Visual Programming language available, Scrap. It is a free and open source (GPL v3 licensed) project that is heavily inspired by the Scratch programming language, which was made using the excellent C/C++ Raylib game framework. The big difference between Scrap and Scratch is a focus on
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Today we have compiled a list of the best Python game engines, frameworks and language bindings for game development in 2025. This is the first in a series of posts exploring the game engine options available for the most popular programming languages. We will eventually have similar guides for C#,
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The Khronos Group, the consortium managing such important projects as OpenGL, WebGPU, OpenAL and Vulkan just announced a major new imitative, the Slang shader language. Khronos Group just made the following tweet: Details from the press release: Beaverton, OR – November 21, 2024 – The Khronos® Group, an open consortium of
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Ink is a programming language and set of tools for creating in-game branching dialogs and game narrative creation. It is not only a programming/scripting language and runtime, it is an entire ecosystem of tools and game engine implementations including Godot, Unreal Engine and recently thanks to the open source of
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