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And don't forget to post it on HN in case you should publish something like that. It sounds awesome.
I'd like to add, though, that I don't generally see a problem with programming games in Java. I just prefer C++ for that, with portability being only one of the reasons.
If you don't like that, just wait a few days. I'm sure there will be tons of libraries that let you do that with a few lines of code.
(Well, the experience alone was worth the effort, of course.)
I remember the day I first saw a '++'. It was a rainy night, and I was inspecting a colleague's for loop, when suddenly a '++' operator appeared. I asked myself, "What in the holy bacon of Zeus is that?" So I looked it up in my book. My head almost exploded, and I asked myself if I should quit programming immediately. It was simply too complicated. After four months of agony and pain I finally recovered and started programming again. And yet... Sometimes, when it's raining outside, the memories come back. Programming... No, my life will never be the same again.
Look at Code Academy, for example. They add new programming languages and technologies every now and then, but basically it's always the same. Just like their audience. They won't add C to that list, because that wouldn't work for this average not-nerdy-enough-for-real-programming audience.
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I love writing everything from scratch just for the sake of learning. And yet I love engines like UE for trying new stuff and real world projects.
In large code bases, automatic testing significantly facilitates adding new features. I don't really know how they test UE, though.
That's the one single reason why I keep Windows 8.1 on my HD. Over the last 3 years I've used Windows for maybe 13-14 hours in total. Fortunately, more and more games come out on Linux, too. And some games run pretty good in Wine. Fallout 3, for example, runs faster on Linux (with higher settings) than it does on Windows. Even though I updated everything, disabled pretty much anything that could run in the background and don't have much installed.
I can't even imagine how Windows can still be the preferred OS for gaming nowadays. Using Windows is a pain in the butt, and so is playing games on it. The whole OS by default wastes precious resources those games could use, and it gets worse with every new version. On Linux I'm the only person who tells the OS how and when to waste the resources.
Maybe these companies prefer the web stuff because most developers know it anyway.
Depends on what kind of web services you're talking about. C++ is widely spread in game development. It's nice to have the client and server code in the same language, so in game development, C++ web services (including multiplayer servers, if you count that as a web service) are not too unusual.
Two years ago, I even had a customer who wanted me to create a C++ backend for a large website. That was a surprise, of course. But it was fun, it's safe, and it works. You can easily test for safety, and the security logic stuff is just what you have in any other language.
I seldomly use mutiple inheritance in any language, and instead prefer composition.