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Originally Posted by Cerulean
I can understand that very intense performance (millions of hits per second) would probably require use of a compiled language, but in Google's case it also requires use of a custom web server, so you know.
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Of course. I wasn't saying that Python couldn't be used in conjunction with compiled language such as C or C++, just that Python alone doesn't have the efficiency required for such heavy work.
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Originally Posted by Cerulean
As for developing the next Quake - i've found developing 3D games with Panda3D to be very enjoyable and manageable, and that the games themselves run very quickly indeed, so why not? EVE online makes heavy use of Python, for example. |
I hadn't run across Panda3D before - I'm certainly going to have a nose around that site later on. But whilst EVE and Panda3D make use of Python for higher level logic, they use a compiled language for the computing intensive 3D engine. And this was rather my point again - that whilst Python is an excellent language, in the case of large projects, it needs to be supported by lower-level libraries and frameworks.