i am evaluating different languages for my game en...

# kotlin-native

[sksk]

i am evaluating different languages for my game engine, and currently KN doesn't fit, boxing issue + no value type makes it unusable, if only Swift was supported on windows i'd pick it.. there is C# and D left but i wish i could use KN instead

[olonho]

why do you believe that value types are critical for a game engine? Generally, Int, Float and similar primitive types are special purpose value types, and so one could build truly perf critical parts of an API around those

[sksk]

I think having a way to create custom value type is important, fast iteration over items, low memory footprint and stackallocated small structs that doesn't create garbage is really helpfull (vector math for ex)

[sksk]

and passing structs to opengl directly

[sksk]

i'm not a compiler guy, or a low level guy, but in c#, in some cases using struct over classes makes a HUGE difference with performance