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Re:Unity's oldest community announces dissolution by amrocha on Monday September 25, 2023 @07:43PM (#37652323)
If it was a homebrew project then sure, but this isn't viable for commercial projects:

- The platform holders can and will ban software built without the official SDK

- You'd get delayed access to patches, which might break compatibility with new OS versions

- You're relying on someone being able to reverse engineer new versions for the life of the console. This is a rare skill.

It's like saying you can write your own C compiler. Yeah you can, but you wouldn't use it in production at your job.

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Re:Unity's oldest community announces dissolution by JohnFen on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:42AM (#37660151)
> If it was a homebrew project then sure, but this isn't viable for commercial projects

None of your points appear insurmountable or showstoppers to me, to be honest, but they would require approaches to mitigate them.

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