What's new in C# for Godot 4.0

Post by llanowarelves » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 3:05 PM UTC

wccrawford wrote: post #30

sovietmudkipz wrote: post #19

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Unity used to have a JS interface, where one could either write their game object components in JS or C#. They deprecated the JS interface. I imagine it was too much work to support two languages? As a dev reading docs, I used to have to deconflict the parts of the docs talking about JS from C# (not difficult as an experienced dev -- I wonder how the first timers fared). I'd also have to translate advice from JS Unit…

I think it was more that Unity's "JS" was actually their own language that was just very similar to real Javascript. They were forced to support the language itself as well as the integration. It was a lot easier to just support C#, which is maintained by others.

Post by pjmlp » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 3:08 PM UTC

lozenge wrote: post #17

andrewstuart wrote: post #7

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>>> Unity still isn't taking industry seriously What does this mean?

They laid off 300 developers including some of the most experienced ones.

Post by Kiro » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 3:13 PM UTC

moonchrome wrote: post #22

andrewstuart wrote: post #6

It’s surprising to me that javascript wasn’t chosen as the scripting language for all these gaming engines. Though I do see the benefit of C# being typed and compiled.

JavaScript doesn't have value types or operator overloading (also applies to Java) - this makes writing vector math pretty shitty imo - and you're working with vectors all over the place in games.

Post by rmeby » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 3:27 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #55

moonchrome wrote: post #22

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JavaScript doesn't have value types or operator overloading (also applies to Java) - this makes writing vector math pretty shitty imo - and you're working with vectors all over the place in games.

How does it help with vector math?

    public static Vector operator -(Vector a, Vector b)
    {
        Vector v = new Vector();
        v.X = a.X - b.X;
        v.Y = a.Y - b.Y;

        return v;
    }

    Vector result = myVector1 - myVector2;

Post by kleiba » Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 3:33 PM UTC

sovietmudkipz wrote: post #23

Any godot programmers here. How is godot's support of games in the browser? 4 years ago I was deciding on a game engine to use. I considered it to unreal, Unity, and godot. I want to be able to build games that can be played on the web. I have many fond memories of the Flash game days. Distributing games over the web allows me to share games with people without the friction of installers, or App Store gate keepers, w…