Like many people, I’ve spent the last few days looking for the new Unity. Godot has some potential, especially if it can take advantage of an influx of dev talent to drive rapid improvement. Open source is cool like that. However, one major issue holds it back - the binding layer between engine code and gameplay code is structurally built to be slow in ways which are very hard to fix without tearing everything down and rebuilding the entire API from scratch.
  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I understand where the C# devs are coming from, but many of these unity devs experimenting need to understand C# was hardly a consideration before microsoft earmarked funds to push and develop support for the language in the engine.

    I’d be heartbroken if gdscript was ever dropped for improved C# support, games are much more fun to write in gdscript. I hope both languages can become more integrated and performent without the sacrificing of the other.

    • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I primarily write in C#, but I really like having GDScript in my pocket for when I need something done quickly or simply.

    • anlumo@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      Unity also started out that way, but they dropped their Python-like and JavaScript-like languages after they realized that nobody used them. There wasn’t so much as a blip after that announcement, indicating that they were totally right on that.

    • captain_oni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I don’t want GDscript to end up like Unityscript or boo-lang on unity.

      After programming in gdscript for a couple of years I don’t want to have to go back to C# ever again.