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by TulliusCicero 140 days ago
But then I have to code in those other languages, languages that require manual memory management that I'm not as familiar with. C# is many times faster than gdscript, and I don't have to think about memory hardly at all. And it's easy enough to code the whole game in it.
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cardanome 140 days ago
You can use C#. It is well supported except for the (currently) missing web target and Microsoft is funding C# support so it will not get abandoned.

You can also use other garbage collected languages. I once tried the Lua bindings and they worked fine.

The problem with C# is that its garbadge collection is not really suited for game dev. The creator of the Mono runtime actually calls using C# his Multi-million dollar mistake and instead works on swift bindings for Godot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzt36EGKEZo

But if you really love C# nothing is stopping you. I prefer GDScript.

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TulliusCicero 140 days ago
I know, I already use C# for Godot. My original comment was just to explain why I don't use gdscript.

Swift might be cool too, I've only used it a bit but I liked what I saw.

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mh2266 140 days ago
rust and swift don't require manual memory management. rust is RAII and swift is either value types or reference-counted.

(yeah there are escape hatches, but it's weird to use them)

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