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What is the best language to develop computer games in, and why?

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Aside from being an absolutely terrible question, this is an exact duplicate of gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/12787/…. – Joe Wreschnig Oct 8 '11 at 11:46
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There is no single answer to this.

If you have a multi-hundred-person studio, trying to make games with a nine-digit budget, you'll be using C++. It has the most power and can produce the best-performing games, although it's a bit of a pain to achieve that power.

If you want to make Facebook games, you'll be using Actionscript, and maybe Javascript if that's supported now. (I have no idea if it is.)

iPhone games? You'll need to learn at least some Objective-C. Android games? Gotta dabble in Java. In both cases you'll probably want to include C as well, since it'll let you port back and forth far more easily, but it's certainly not necessary.

Are you an indie game developer, planning to target Windows and maybe the XBox? C# is a good choice - I've heard good things about the XNA. You can also use C# for Unity, which is nicely crossplatform and performs very well as long as you're doing something Unity is good at.

Those are all the common languages . . .

. . . but "best"?

Best is in the eye of the beholder. Tell us what you want out of a language, maybe we can describe the best language, maybe we can't.

Personally, I use Lua, overlaid on top of C++.

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Well, im thinking of a game development something in the direciton of age of empires. Would be best if it would work of Windows, Linux and Mac alike. – Hermann Ingjaldsson Oct 8 '11 at 10:55
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I'd seriously look into C# and Unity, then. – ZorbaTHut Oct 8 '11 at 11:21
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There is not best language to develop games. It depends for which platform (mobile/console/desktop...) you want to develop and also what kind of game you plan to develop. Often the framework/platform dictates the language, anyway - some engines/platforms (eg. Unity) offer you different languages to choose from.

Have a look at this question

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