Comment by reactordev
20 hours ago
This is why C# is superior to C++ for game development (not the graphics low level, but the game play higher level).
Being able to use Events, ECS, Reflection, Dynamic code is a god send. I have written game engines in C# and I still find myself defaulting to it anytime I think about Vulkan. I even published my own bindings for it. The best thing about .Net unfortunately is also one of its worst.
The deployment and packaging situation. It’s better than it’s been but it’s still a freaking mess. A mix of undocumented cli commands and wacky xml so that I can get an amalgamated build… or if I wanted to target another OS… or something of that nature. Even adding a project reference to a project, you have to go the long way round and use the cli commands. It’s better than having to install Visual Studio Ultimate but I wish they would put some love into their VSCode extension to give .Net some more powah.
Other than that, if you need Cish speed but need to support a GUI or something, C# is a good choice. If you’re happy with HTML UI, use that and forget C#. The UI cross platform situation is basically MIA.
I respectfully disagree — a lot of conveniences that C# provides produce GC trash which will cause frame spikes. I remember having had to add a non-allocation string.contains alternative at one project. Lambdas and linq also have this problem, or if a string is passed through native-c# boundary. Language itself is really nice though :)
C# is too much of a you hold it wrong language, you can easily avoid the problem you describe, but it is such a pain, i do like the fact that the language constantly improves in all directions so it definitely does not remove its positive sides when you do a thing in the right way
I think you need to revisit your biases