alt Hacker NewsShocking to me they are still on Python. Over like moving the high CPU parts over to rust or something.
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gonzalohm • today at 1:19 PM
Does the game have performance issues? I don't see the need to rewrite unless there is a problem with it
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dcrazy • last Tuesday at 8:50 PM
> Every character, every skill point, every asset in every hangar, every ISK in every wallet was written in Python 2 code, and all of it must read back under Python 3 exactly as it was.
This task would be even more challenging under such a dramatic rewrite.
winrid • today at 3:05 PM
Python 3 will likely be faster by itself.
Some parts are in C++ and they even made it open source recently:
https://github.com/carbonengine
https://fenris.com/carbon