Comment by gr4vityWall

That was a great post. I had no idea modern .NET had hot-reloading built-in like that. From my experience programming games, that's the biggest time saver you can ask for. Does it work well (or at all) with Godot/C#?

A few years ago, a notorious developer in the GameMaker community wrote a tool that added live reloading to it, and immediately it got widely adopted by big projects.

In terms of prototyping, I think an 'ideal' engine for extremely fast iteration would be something like GameMaker 8.1, but with hot reloading and slightly better window management inside the editor itself.

I don't share the core needs of the author though, I prefer using an engine with a built-in editor, specially in the beginning of a project. I really wanted to like Godot, by the abstractions it provides never 'clicked' with me. I can't think of a game like a bunch of nodes. That's unfortunate for me as Godot it the most popular free game engine AFAIK, with all the goods that comes with that.

I also really don't want to spend years mastering a proprietary tool again.