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Gave a look into Godot, find out the engine is deeply integrated with some custom scripting language that leads to performance issues [0] (Unreal learnt from th

by 10xDev 3y ago

Gave a look into Godot, find out the engine is deeply integrated with some custom scripting language that leads to performance issues [0] (Unreal learnt from this and got rid UnrealScript), support object-oriented design over ECS [1] and are still trying to support OpenGL when the rest of the industry is dropping it in favour of focusing on modern APIs like Vulkan [2] but progress is at least being made with Godot 4. [0] https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/ https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity... [1] https://godotengine.org/article/why-isnt-godot-ecs-based-game-engine/ https://godotengine.org/article/why-isnt-godot-ecs-based-gam... [2] https://forum.unity.com/threads/opengl-deprecation-and-removal-for-macos-and-windows.1312563/ https://forum.unity.com/threads/opengl-deprecation-and-remov...

matsemann 3y ago
A great reply to your [0] is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37598985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37598985
szappetx 3y ago
OpenGL support is currently necessary for targeting web and certain other platforms. The industry might be trending away from it, but it is still very much used.
imtringued 3y ago
>Gave a look into Godot, find out the engine is deeply integrated with some custom scripting language that leads to performance issues >Godot API is designed around GDScript: This is also not true. In fact, until Godot 4.1, typed GDScript did calls via "ptrcall" syntax, and the argument encoding was a bottleneck. As a result, we created a special path for GDScript to call more efficiently. [0] [0] https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef21 https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef... I don't have to write anything new, since you didn't bother to write anything new either.
napierzaza 3y ago
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by 10xDev 3y ago

matsemann 3y ago

A great reply to your [0] is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37598985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37598985

szappetx 3y ago

OpenGL support is currently necessary for targeting web and certain other platforms. The industry might be trending away from it, but it is still very much used.

imtringued 3y ago

>Gave a look into Godot, find out the engine is deeply integrated with some custom scripting language that leads to performance issues >Godot API is designed around GDScript: This is also not true. In fact, until Godot 4.1, typed GDScript did calls via "ptrcall" syntax, and the argument encoding was a bottleneck. As a result, we created a special path for GDScript to call more efficiently. [0] [0] https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef21 https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef... I don't have to write anything new, since you didn't bother to write anything new either.

napierzaza 3y ago

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