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I was hoping for a switch to Microsoft's .Net, which would enable use of Arcadia (Clojure in Unity3D) for serious/big tasks. Right now, the GC performance of U

I was hoping for a switch to Microsoft's .Net, which would enable use of Arcadia (Clojure in Unity3D) for serious/big tasks. Right now, the GC performance of Unity is horrible relative to what you'd get on the JVM and there's no reason to believe IL2CPP is going to be any better. When you don't have a generational collector, you have to seriously constrain your allocations, crimping your immutable style. The Unity roadmap suggests they're going ahead with a Mono upgrade (I believe they dynamically link every platform sans iOS): http://unity3d.com/unity/roadmap/ http://unity3d.com/unity/roadmap/ So it's probably not on the cards (no pun intended). However, the Mono upgrade will bring a generational GC to the platforms on which it's usable (which will fall somewhere on the spectrum of Editor, PC, !iOS).

jebblue 11y ago
I helped build a web service product that ran on Mono in the early 2000's back when I was still also a Windows dev but with the significant improvements over the mid to latter 2000's to the speed and stability of the JVM I dare say (and consider Mojang's success) the JVM would be a better choice for future game engines than Mono. With so much work having gone into using Mono I doubt it would be changed to the JVM but also Microsoft to their credit is open sourcing some/a lot? of the .NET runtime to open platforms like Linux. The only problem I have with Mono today is Miguel's decision to completely disrespect and disregard the Linux Desktop: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
  That blog post is correct tho?