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Now time for them to switch to a saner language (say C#), and it'll be great!

JCoder58 3y ago
There have been a number of community attempts to implement C# as a first-class scripting language. Most fail due the developers running into life. The latest active plugin for C#/.NET is UnrealSharp (https://github.com/UnrealSharp/UnrealSharp https://github.com/UnrealSharp/UnrealSharp). They have an active Discord: https://discord.gg/HQuJUYFxeV https://discord.gg/HQuJUYFxeV
- xandrius 3y ago
  That might actually make me want to give it a try! Thanks :)
- TillE 3y ago
  The problem with maintaining unofficial language bindings of any kind is that it's an extraordinarily tedious, unrewarding job. It's hard to imagine many programming tasks which are less fun. I've done it a few times, and I've learned to steer well clear of either creating or relying on such bindings if at all possible.
alex_lav 3y ago
C# continues to be the best language I never ever want to use. Maybe UE supporting it would change that!
CSMastermind 3y ago
Definitely one of the benefits of picking Unity over Unreal.
- not_your_mentat 3y ago
  Hey Thought Police! Are we allowed to say positive things about Unity again?
StrauXX 3y ago
Epic is working on a, somewhat Haskell esque, scripting language for UE5. It's called Verse and currently available as a beta in the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, which is a simplified UE5 for creating community content for Fortnite. I haven't tried it yet, but the talk they held at the GDC a few years back was promising.
- xandrius 3y ago
  I wonder why so many prefer reimplementing the wheel (see any sort of Xscript out there) instead of leveraging some pre-existing and proven languages. I don't mind if it is something other than C# but I want great IDE support and, most importantly, memory safety + strongly typed.
- justin66 3y ago
  Not just Epic: they’re employing Simon Peyton Jones, of all people, to work on Unreal’s new language. This very recent interview with him was great: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UBgam9XUHs0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UBgam9XUHs0 But a person will want to read the documentation as well to answer the herp derp why not just c# drool gurgle questions.

There have been a number of community attempts to implement C# as a first-class scripting language. Most fail due the developers running into life. The latest active plugin for C#/.NET is UnrealSharp (https://github.com/UnrealSharp/UnrealSharp https://github.com/UnrealSharp/UnrealSharp). They have an active Discord: https://discord.gg/HQuJUYFxeV https://discord.gg/HQuJUYFxeV

xandrius 3y ago
That might actually make me want to give it a try! Thanks :)
TillE 3y ago
The problem with maintaining unofficial language bindings of any kind is that it's an extraordinarily tedious, unrewarding job. It's hard to imagine many programming tasks which are less fun. I've done it a few times, and I've learned to steer well clear of either creating or relying on such bindings if at all possible.

alex_lav 3y ago

C# continues to be the best language I never ever want to use. Maybe UE supporting it would change that!

CSMastermind 3y ago

Definitely one of the benefits of picking Unity over Unreal.

not_your_mentat 3y ago
Hey Thought Police! Are we allowed to say positive things about Unity again?

StrauXX 3y ago

Epic is working on a, somewhat Haskell esque, scripting language for UE5. It's called Verse and currently available as a beta in the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, which is a simplified UE5 for creating community content for Fortnite. I haven't tried it yet, but the talk they held at the GDC a few years back was promising.

xandrius 3y ago
I wonder why so many prefer reimplementing the wheel (see any sort of Xscript out there) instead of leveraging some pre-existing and proven languages. I don't mind if it is something other than C# but I want great IDE support and, most importantly, memory safety + strongly typed.
justin66 3y ago
Not just Epic: they’re employing Simon Peyton Jones, of all people, to work on Unreal’s new language. This very recent interview with him was great: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UBgam9XUHs0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UBgam9XUHs0 But a person will want to read the documentation as well to answer the herp derp why not just c# drool gurgle questions.