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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love seeing more people getting into Godot! It's such a nice game engine with a fun learning curve and the scripting language is mostly hassle free.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the scripting language is mostly hassle free.

Is there a reason Godot has it's own language for scripting and doesn't use a common language like unity (C#) and unreal (C++)?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here is their reasoning, basically summarized as "it's easier to get everything for games into a new language than bolting it onto an existing language". I also recall seeing a blog post where they said their initial implementation of GDScrip took fewer lines of code than embedding Lua did.

Note Godot does officially support C# and C++, and there is unofficial support for other languages too. But they commonly recommend GDScript for beginners.