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by light_hue_1 1431 days ago
> I think that it's will be hard to mantain game that is heavy on simulation with a lot of moving parts... C++

I don't see why that would be. Godot has bindings for all sorts of languages including C#. Why would it be any harder to write C# code with Godot bindings than C# code with Unity bindings?
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SXX 1431 days ago
Problem is not to write GDScript or C# code in Godot, but profiling and performance optimizations: toolset of the engine is really lacking in this area so it's really hard to find out what are major bottlenecks are and what is eating most of frame time.

Godot profiler for their "scripting" be it GDScript or C# is a dumpster fire. If you have a lot of objects and non-obvious performance drops it's really hard to find them.

In case you use C++ you will be able to use mature profilers for C++ projects like built-in one in Visual Studio or Xcode, Valgrind on Linux or some 3rd-party solution like Intel XE Studio. All of them are just 10000% better than what Godot have at this moment.

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light_hue_1 1431 days ago
> Godot profiler for their "scripting" be it GDScript or C# is a dumpster fire. ... In case you use C++ you will be able to use mature profilers

Why couldn't you use your regular mature C# profiler like you do anywhere else? It's officially supported. Both the mono profiler and JetBrains work.

> In case you use C++ you will be able to use mature profilers for C++ projects like built-in one in Visual Studio or Xcode, Valgrind on Linux or some 3rd-party solution like Intel XE Studio. All of them are just 10000% better than what Godot have at this moment.

You can do exactly that right now. Use the C++ profiler to find hotspots in Godot and the C# profiler to find hotspots in your code.

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SXX 1431 days ago
I can easily answer both of your questions. Because I obviously want to know how much time exactly game code takes together: both engine and "scripting". Using weird combinations of two different profilers is not a good day to work on code. Both Unreal and Unity have proper usable profilers and Godot doesnt.

Also unfortunately our project is usingGDScript and there is no profiler for it.

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