[SlimDX] Information on the history of SlimDX

Eric Richards · 2015-07-14T23:19:18

I know that there are a number of members here who were or are active developers of SlimDX. I've spent quite a deal of time using SlimDX over the last few years, learning both the library and 3D graphics in general (although not nearly as much as I'd have liked in the past year or so). I originally learned DirectX 9 using C++ and dabbling in XNA, but after finishing college and getting a job doing less sexy, more enterprisey .NET development, when I came back around to wanting to do game programming again as a hobby, I was very happy to come upon SlimDX, and all of the work that its team had done. After a couple of years of using C#, NuGet, LINQ, and ReSharper, being able to leverage that experience and tooling, rather than having to go back and dust off my out-of-date C++ skills was great. Huge productivity enhancer. While I haven't managed to do anything wildly successful yet with SlimDX, I did write up a series of tutorials based on Frank Luna's DirectX 11 book as I worked through it, which get a fair amount of traffic. I was originally a history major, and I have an odd impulse to learn the history of things that I work on and am interested in. Some of my favorite programming books are those that tell the stories of the people and events related to software, like Hackers, Masters of Doom, Console Wars, and Stay Awhile and Listen. Also Raymond Chen's blog, which is littered with little pieces of history about the development of Windows. With that in mind, would anyone involved in SlimDX be interested in sharing any stories about the project? Motivations for starting the project? (From what I vaguely recall, lurking here years ago, it sort of took off after Managed DirectX was deprecated, as a more direct alternative to XNA) How was the project organized, and the work divided up? Any interesting technical challenges along the way? Where there any interesting dynamics when 3rd party game studios used SlimDX in their games? What's the story with SharpDX? How have the rise of other .NET based game engines (mostly Unity, it would appear) affected interest in SlimDX? Plans for the future? I believe I had seen earlier this year, when the DX12 previews and docs were coming out, that Promit was looking at a DX12 version. Thanks, looking forward to any responses

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