To Unity Developers: Will you switch engines?

[The_Sloth_Sleeps]

C# allows you to ship a game made by 20 okay-to-good engineers and only needing 1-2 performance experts in the team.

Do you need some kind of library for that or can you do everything in C#? I've tried C# shortly, but it didn't feel that special. Maybe it's the libraries or connection to Unity etc. that makes it more useful. I think memory (resource?) management in C# is weird, but it could be just me.

Its not just you. Its weird.

There are much better libraries than Unity for use with C#. I don't know why anyone would use Unity when you have XNA/Monogame. It even has some decent UI libraries.

 

[The_Sloth_Sleeps]

C# allows you to ship a game made by 20 okay-to-good engineers and only needing 1-2 performance experts in the team.

Do you need some kind of library for that or can you do everything in C#? I've tried C# shortly, but it didn't feel that special. Maybe it's the libraries or connection to Unity etc. that makes it more useful. I think memory (resource?) management in C# is weird, but it could be just me.

Fuck c#. For every plus it has there is some downside. I had this problem the past few days where I am trying to have a nav mesh node, and attach entities to "taking" that node up. I was storing the nodes as structs. This made some really horrible bugs.

Well....in c# structs are value types. That means it was essentially holding a copy and not a pointer, so I had to switch to class so its holds a pointer. This is just stupid. Its way of managing memory is horrible, horrible. I can't just say hold this struct as a unique memory object (like I can in C++).

I don't like C++ at all but hands down its better at knowing how to handle memory, there's no confusion.

 

[Tweed]

I was learning Unity, but then Jew happened. What do?

 

[MF]

Well....in c# structs are value types. That means it was essentially holding a copy and not a pointer, so I had to switch to class so its holds a pointer. This is just stupid. Its way of managing memory is horrible, horrible. I can't just say hold this struct as a unique memory object (like I can in C++).

Even 'primitive' types in C# are structures. A float is System.Single for example.

The advantage over a class is that it's dropped on the stack and not the heap.

Use the unsafe keyword and * and & if you want pointer level of control.

 

[pakoito]

`class shared_pointer<T>(val value: T)` grats you have a C++ shared pointer now. Except it doesn't have runtime identity, so no class-based lookups for you. You have to use a static tag object if your ECS supports that.

It's an OOP/VM thing rather than C#, you'll find this in the JVM and V8 too.

 

[Sunri]

lmao

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[The_Sloth_Sleeps]

I forgot about this one.
https://www.stride3d.net/features/