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Re: Unity Software Inc S-1

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adamnemecek wrote: post #45
johnfn wrote: post #33

I'm quite bearish on Unity in the long run. Unity to me seems like a team with a fantastic marketing department to contrast with a much weaker engineering department. I've tried to use Unity off and on for years and every time I spend time learning it, I regret it. I'm a full-time React developer, and the difference in engineering culture and best engineering practices between Unity and React is massive. The Unity ex…

Unity is nothing like react.

Again, I'm talking about the engineering culture fostered by the two projects. I'm not literally comparing a game engine to a web rendering library.

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Post by brundolf »

MrLeap wrote: post #19

I use Unity every day at work. This is a mixed bag for me. Unity gives google a run for their money when it comes to abandoning old features / letting them rot. The editor is kind of crashy, launch times get unwieldy fast. Sometimes there's subtle differences between build version and running in the editor, and solving the disparity is a death march. All that said, it's still one of my favorite environments to work i…

I'm curious what issues it still has with version-control? I know that for a while the default asset format was binary instead of text, but I believe they made text the default a little while ago (I've used Unity in a hobby capacity over the years but never professionally)

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Post by johnfn »

spyke112 wrote: post #41
johnfn wrote: post #33

I'm quite bearish on Unity in the long run. Unity to me seems like a team with a fantastic marketing department to contrast with a much weaker engineering department. I've tried to use Unity off and on for years and every time I spend time learning it, I regret it. I'm a full-time React developer, and the difference in engineering culture and best engineering practices between Unity and React is massive. The Unity ex…

Why on earth would you compare Unity to React?

Again, I'm talking about the engineering culture fostered by the two projects. I'm not literally comparing a game engine to a web rendering library.

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Post by JamesSwift »

VonGuard wrote: post #6

This should be a monster. We have no direct game development tools exposure on the stock market, unless you count Autodesk, but their tools are usable by other industries. That means it's gonna be shouldering a burden for an entire industry, and one that the stock market doesn't understand or appreciate. Potential for going either way, really. Development tools have traditionally been a poor investment long term, but…

I agree until you say Unity will proxy Unreal. I intentionally looked for investment options for Unity in order to possibly _short_ Unreal based on the recent Epic v. Apple news.

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Post by JamesSwift »

caymanjim wrote: post #60

There's no mention of Apple here, but I suspect the timing of this is directly related to Apple threatening to cut off Epic's SDK access due to the fight over app purchase fees. This was almost certainly in the works already, but now they need to accelerate it.

Thats what I assumed as well, and anecdotally I personally researched if Unity was publicly traded after the Epic v. Apple news so I could buy some shares.

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Post by brett-k »

MrLeap wrote: post #19

I use Unity every day at work. This is a mixed bag for me. Unity gives google a run for their money when it comes to abandoning old features / letting them rot. The editor is kind of crashy, launch times get unwieldy fast. Sometimes there's subtle differences between build version and running in the editor, and solving the disparity is a death march. All that said, it's still one of my favorite environments to work i…

Plastic SCM is pretty great at handling Unity projects of all shapes and sizes.

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Post by TillE »

serverholic wrote: post #53
johnfn wrote: post #33

I'm quite bearish on Unity in the long run. Unity to me seems like a team with a fantastic marketing department to contrast with a much weaker engineering department. I've tried to use Unity off and on for years and every time I spend time learning it, I regret it. I'm a full-time React developer, and the difference in engineering culture and best engineering practices between Unity and React is massive. The Unity ex…

How can the people replying to you be so fucking stupid? My god, OP isn't comparing React and Unity at a code level. He's comparing the engineering culture surrounding the two pieces of software.

I've found nerds can be extremely literal about analogies when the two things being compared don't line up in every respect. Kinda misses the point of analogies.

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Post by jayd16 »

oblio wrote: post #46
ordinaryradical wrote: post #10

Having followed this space for some time, Unity made huge strides at the beginning but has become notorious for punishing shiny features while leaving things broken or half-supported, which makes the developer’s life hard if you happen to run into one of those bugs. Closed source means you’re stuck writing ugly workarounds. My impression was that you can bootstrap some incredible stuff in Unity, but demanding kinds o…

Hearthstone is built with Unity. I don't know if it's on Blizzard or on Unity (though, comparing things to other Blizzard games, I'd suspect Unity), but Hearthstone uses an awful lot of resources and is quite laggy on mobile, despite it presenting a pretty bare-bones 3D scene with barely any special effects.

Card games use a lot of high res art. They take a surprising amount of textures.

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Post by hesdeadjim »

MrLeap wrote: post #19

I use Unity every day at work. This is a mixed bag for me. Unity gives google a run for their money when it comes to abandoning old features / letting them rot. The editor is kind of crashy, launch times get unwieldy fast. Sometimes there's subtle differences between build version and running in the editor, and solving the disparity is a death march. All that said, it's still one of my favorite environments to work i…

Stockholm Syndrome is on my mind frequently with this engine. I’m hoping their promise of 2021 being a stability and productivity focus will come true.

It’s hugely frustrating to see how poorly planned their roadmap is. I have access to core support and their private slack, and you’d be surprised how short notice some of their decisions have been.

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