[kuzehanka]

Specifically Unity would have been much better served using something like Electron. Unity's UI looks bad, feels bad, and is a huge pain in the ass if you're authoring extensions.

[learc83]

2019.1 has a new retained mode editor UI system based on CSS.

[forrestthewoods]

Whoa there.

Electron is a catastrophic of hog of resources and performance. Electron for mobile game UI would be a disaster!

[jrk]

This is referring to Electron for the (PC-based) editor UI, not the deployed game UI.

(Plenty of criticisms of Electron still hold, of course.)

[forrestthewoods]

Ah, that's fair.

Unity launched in 2005. Electron released in 2013. Still, saying Unity would have been "better served" by using Electron is more than a little unreasonable!

Using a primarily JavaScript environment for primarily C# content sounds like an absolute nightmare to me.

[overgard]

Weirdly, when Unity was first starting out it had this "UnityScript" thing, which was javascript-but-not-quite. Luckily it's mostly been phased out (I don't think newer versions even support it)