Any experiences with Godot + M1 macOS?
Been using 4 on my M1 with no issues at all.
Godot 4.0 Released
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#22Why isn’t c++ a first class citizen in a game engine written in c++?
In my experience, most devs dislike working in C++. (I'm an industry engineer in games. Even the people who like C++ hate C++.) Maintaining C++ support is expensive for an engine, just like maintaining any language binding. IMO, they should optimize for the most approachable/developer ergonomic language, which C++ definitely is not. That said, I strongly disagree with their decision to simply build their own language…
Do you have any specific criticisms of GDScript you'd like to share?
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#23Looking good. Hoping in a couple of years it will be a no-brainer to use instead of Unity.
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#24Looking good. Hoping in a couple of years it will be a no-brainer to use instead of Unity.
To me, as a hobbyist, it already is a no-brainer.
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#25This is excellent news! I have been waiting for Godot (hehe) to release this. The new Vulkan backend is exciting for 3D projects and I am excited to try to dig into the new 2d tilemapping after work. As well, gotta love experimental Rust support: > With Godot 4, we introduce a new system called GDExtension. By design, it takes the best parts of creating GDNative extensions and writing custom engine modules using high…
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#26Huge quantity of work here. Really stunning. How is this sustainable through donations alone?
Because people make money using it.
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#27Why isn’t c++ a first class citizen in a game engine written in c++?
In my experience, most devs dislike working in C++. (I'm an industry engineer in games. Even the people who like C++ hate C++.) Maintaining C++ support is expensive for an engine, just like maintaining any language binding. IMO, they should optimize for the most approachable/developer ergonomic language, which C++ definitely is not. That said, I strongly disagree with their decision to simply build their own language…
GDScript is basically Python syntax with some sugar.
* Well known: Python is well known. GDScript is thus familiar. * Well supported: it's a first class citizen in Godot, that's all that matters * Easily portable: portable to what? it runs on the Godot engine. That's all the portability it needs.
I think they built their own language because of the integration with their Editor. It's not Lua or JavaScript or Python, but it works well enough for Godot in my experience.
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#28Looking good. Hoping in a couple of years it will be a no-brainer to use instead of Unity.
They have a looooooong way to go to make it an appropriate tool for large teams, but they are taking all the right steps to reach that hopeful future.
The founders creating a commercial arm of the engine is critical. As a real studio, you need to be able to support consoles and you need to be able to pay someone money to fix broken shit in the engine when you have a scary deadline looming.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my experience, most devs dislike working in C++. (I'm an industry engineer in games. Even the people who like C++ hate C++.) Maintaining C++ support is expensive for an engine, just like maintaining any language binding. IMO, they should optimize for the most approachable/developer ergonomic language, which C++ definitely is not. That said, I strongly disagree with their decision to simply build their own language…
Do you have any specific criticisms of GDScript you'd like to share?
Not GP but I'm a full time solo indie dev.
In my case the main issue with GDScript is the tooling, or lack of thereof. No symbol aware rename, no go to definition/usages, poor autocomplete, cryptic errors. Also static typing that's kinda but not entirely there, which exacerbates the tooling issues.
Good tooling is an enormous undertaking, so the way I see it, GDScript is forever doomed to feel like someone's impressive hobby project.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my experience, most devs dislike working in C++. (I'm an industry engineer in games. Even the people who like C++ hate C++.) Maintaining C++ support is expensive for an engine, just like maintaining any language binding. IMO, they should optimize for the most approachable/developer ergonomic language, which C++ definitely is not. That said, I strongly disagree with their decision to simply build their own language…
Do you have any specific criticisms of GDScript you'd like to share?
Not the OP but I can pitch in that, for me, it is important (and I'd add: efficient) to invest my scarce time in a language that can be used in several contexts
e.g.: Using python, I can do games, scientific/bio work, math, web backends etc. The same time investment in GDScript will only net me experience with GDScript which right now only exists in Godot.