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What is the language you use to program a demo and why?

category: code [glöplog]
somewhat ontopic news: today was probably the first demoparty ever with not one, but TWO (completely independent) Haskell demos! :)
added on the 2014-11-29 23:20:41 by blala blala
\o/
added on the 2014-11-29 23:39:59 by ferris ferris
Assembly, because you have to be deluded to work on the Mega Drive in C. Seriously, compilers for it are just plain horrible, and also all the nifty software rendered stuff needs very carefully tuned instructions to not waste cycles (on the flipside, the stuff that involves hardware abuse is usually very light on the 68000, so there's that I guess).

I haven't yet tried making demos on other platforms so I don't know what I'd use there =P (but if it's an old enough system then it's likely I'll resort back to assembly again for the above reason)
added on the 2014-11-30 15:58:01 by Sik Sik
Assembler mostly on Atari/Archimedes (long time no see btw), some precalcs in basic or c.
added on the 2014-11-30 16:54:35 by baah baah
I was surprised to learn and, after what you just said, I'm now even more surprised to know that pier solar was mainly coded in C !
added on the 2014-11-30 18:15:28 by MsK` MsK`
C#/GLSL (I use OpenTK as an OpenGL wrapper in .NET)

I used to code C++, but C# has rotted my brain like a month-old banana. Last time I coded asm in anger was on my pentium-100.
added on the 2014-11-30 23:48:16 by bloodnok bloodnok

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