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Re:Godot is not the new Unity – The anatomy of a Godot API call by gustavus on Monday September 18, 2023 @06:34PM (#37563062)
Well that's a point a lot of other people have raised and is the one I am trying to make, Godot and the associated ecosystem could become like the next generations Javascript. Companies didn't start investing an enormous amount of time and effort into improving JS because they wanted to, they did it because they adopted it and then ran into cases where they needed the performance.

My point being that a lot of the concerns are not foundational to Godot and GDScript and can be improved if there is an investment. But that investment will come with adoption, not the other way around.

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Re:Godot is not the new Unity – The anatomy of a Godot API call by krapp on Monday September 18, 2023 @06:42PM (#37563138)
Javascript only got the investment it did because it was the only language that would run in a web browser, when the web suddenly became a billion dollar business and javascript developers were a dime a dozen. Godot is able to support multiple languages. The goal should be improving and expanding language support, not repeating the necessary evil of making Javascript the One True Programming Language.
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