xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@LukeAlmighty Once the COVID narrative ends, The Great Reset begins and all the COVID alarmists will be cheering it on.

@icare4america "But this pandemic provides us with a unique opportunity for a Great Reset."

Which has created more political/social division in our modern age?

@roboneko@neckbeard.xyz @wolf480pl @Moon IIRC, Unity transcompiles C# into C++. I wasn't talking about 3D games specifically. For 2D, it's fine.

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There are probably a lot more libraries that are Windows only, but I'm pretty sure that's going to change as time goes on.

I honestly, wouldn't recommend C# outside of indie/hobbyist game development (using Unity, Godot, Xenko, or MonoGame). The Java gamedev scene seems to be dead outside of Minecraft and it wouldn't surprise me if MS ends up killing the Java version of that.

@roboneko@neckbeard.xyz @wolf480pl @Moon Well, Windows Forms (the default GUI library) is still proprietary and Windows only. GTK# seems to be the most popular cross-platform GUI library.

Visual Studio is also Windows only, but VSCode is cross-platform and open source. There is also MonoDevelop which is the default IDE for Mono.

@wolf480pl @Moon ASP.NET and Entity Framework are both open source now. As for third-party stuff, Blazor and DotNetNuke are open-source web frameworks for .NET.

@wolf480pl @Moon Mono has been around since 2004 and .NET is pretty much open-source now. C# still seems to be frowned upon in the FOSS community because Microsoft can still fuck with the language whenever they want, but if you don't care about that and just want to make games it's a pretty good language for just that.

@Bro-Drillard @Moon Don't have that much experience with that outside of web stuff. I know Java was somewhat popular as a server-side language for websites, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

From what I can tell, Golang seems to be the go to language for general server stuff now.