Presentation: Manu Evans, "Using D Alongside a Game Engine"

Post-mortem on experiments integrating D with a typical C/C++ game engine as an extension language for use processing game logic. Topics covered include dynamic C/C++ linkage, memory management, patterns for usage as an extension of existing C/C++ code, issues encountered, and other hairy details.

Manu Evans is a senior technology programmer in the video games industry with 10 years commercial experience. He has worked at Remedy Games in Finland, and Krome Studios in Australia, on titles including Alan Wake, Star Wars, Spyro the Dragon, and many, many more. Manu is an expert in hardware abstraction, low level systems and performance optimisation on a wide variety of computer hardware.