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Why was openmw moved from D to C++?
Had the developers developed a distaste for D?

The founder of OpenMW, Nicolay Korslund, wrote it in D.

D has nowhere near as much support as C++ and during that period OpenMW attracted very little developers willing to learn a whole new language in order to contribute. This also would have made it harder to maintain and extend.

Nicolay left and Zini rewrote it in C++ to fix this very important problem, and ever since then OpenMW has flourished under his watch.

Actually, Nicolay rewrote it in C++ (most of it anyway). I only joined after the rewrite effort was already several month old (which accounts for about a week of development at todays development speed).

Thanks for the clarification.

Zini wrote:Actually, Nicolay rewrote it in C++ (most of it anyway). I only joined after the rewrite effort was already several month old (which accounts for about a week of development at todays development speed).

Oh, that's right. My mistake.

The short version is that it saved the project.

Before the rewrite every few days someone would write in some forum that they'd like to contribute to the project if it switched over to C++ .

veepee wrote:Before the rewrite every few days someone would write in some forum that they'd like to contribute to the project if it switched over to C++ .

Yeah, I don't think a lot of people know D but there's a lot of us that know C++ so it was smart of Zini to rewrite it.

sully wrote:Yeah, I don't think a lot of people know D but there's a lot of us that know C++ so it was smart of Zini to rewrite it.

He didn't, Nicolay Korslund did, as Zini stated above. Zini came post-C++ re-write.

Yes! Man, the third post explains it.

Zini wrote:Actually, Nicolay rewrote it in C++ (most of it anyway). I only joined after the rewrite effort was already several month old (which accounts for about a week of development at todays development speed).

@psi29a: Better close this thread to avoid further confusion.