Its funny how nothing of that actually got implemented.
Instead we have visual scripting to allow people that cannot program at all to contribute.
There are no near future improvements that fit game development people. All people who could have been creating and using new languages are not even going to go to job interviews. Because ads, fin-tech and web are paying a lot more.
But how did they improved life of those of us who are programmers and work on games?
The article was about programmers being able to express their intent in code better. Life went completely different way. And most of comments even in 2022 here are still following that old dead end path and arguing benefits of different programming languages that maybe will change game industry.
have you had a back-and-forth with someone who sat with you so you could type while they designed a system, because they can’t code and you’re not a game designer? Blueprint eliminates the developer time needed for that design work, and lets the designer design at their own pace. when they are happy, you (the developer) can turn that into code quite quickly, without the days required pairing with the gameplay designer to get the behavior where they want it.
More generally, there are benefits to every programming language ever made, if you count learning what not to do.
In my experience with such tools the part 'you can turn that' means that you do not let them go far away from the cage and quickly destroy whatever they did.
Which is not what I see happening.
I see that now you have 2 layered system forever. You need to fully understand both layers to make changes. You need to keep everything like it was designed so design person will be able to continue their work. You now need to design code blocks to the puzzle to make it look like its a software.
Currently I am coping with what I see and the only feeling I have and I know its wrong, is that whatever prototype team gets from this visual stage has to be stripped for ideas and redesigned from clean slate before going into next steps. But I have been in business long time and I know I will not see any clean slates anytime soon. We are going to ship whatever 'works'.
Instead we have visual scripting to allow people that cannot program at all to contribute.
There are no near future improvements that fit game development people. All people who could have been creating and using new languages are not even going to go to job interviews. Because ads, fin-tech and web are paying a lot more.