why python is not used in game development? And why are the C+ and C# languages favored?

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  • Pygame

    🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.

    This is not to say it's not possible to build high quality games in Python, for example DaFluffyPotato (YouTube, Steam Developer Profile) is a developer who made a complete game in Python using pygame and documented a lot of the process on his YouTube channel.

  • mypy

    Optional static typing for Python

    It's worth noting that Python 3.5+ added standardized type annotations for 3rd party type checkers to leverage. I pretty much use them all the time now except for extremely small scripts. My 3rd party type checker of choice is mypy.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • Pandas

    Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

    any language can handle huge amounts of data, Python is popular for it because it has very popular and easy-to-use libraries for that like pandas or numpy... the latter of which is largely written in C anyway.

  • NumPy

    The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.

    any language can handle huge amounts of data, Python is popular for it because it has very popular and easy-to-use libraries for that like pandas or numpy... the latter of which is largely written in C anyway.

  • Cataclysm-DDA

    Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

    C++17 is not backwards compatible with C++14, at least based on attempts I've made to update a large codebase to it. "Breaking the language for shits and giggles" is something the vast majority of languages do. Python 3 was a disaster for reasons unrelated to a major version change.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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