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by cyber_kinetist 407 days ago
To be fair, there is no language that has a framework that contains all of these things... unless you're using one of the game engines like Unity/Unreal.

If you're willing to constrain yourself to 2D games, and exclude physics engines (assume you just use one of the Box2D bindings) and also UI (2D gamedevs tend to make their own UI systems anyway)... Then your best bet in the C# world is Monogame (https://monogame.net/), which has lots of successful titles shipped on desktop and console (Stardew Valley, Celeste)
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Ygg2 407 days ago
> To be fair, there is no language that has a framework that contains all of these things.

Depends. There is Godot Script. Seeing how it comes with a game engine.

But original claim was

    > actually dotnet also does not need too many dependencies for games and desktop apps.
If you're including languages with big game engines. It's a tautology. Languages with good game engines, have good game engines.

But general purpose programming language has very little to gain from including a niche library even if it's the best in business. Imagine if C++ shipped with Unreal.

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