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Sam Pruden
Personal blog · sampruden.github.io/postsprogramminggames
Sam Pruden's personal blog at sampruden.github.io covers programming and games. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Godot is not the new Unity – The anatomy of a Godot API call”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sam Pruden's posts on game engines, arguing that Godot has performance problems and comparing it with Unity's C# runtime and the wider engine market. The comments cite the posts as support for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sam Pruden’s personal blog to dump programming thoughts on.
Most-linked posts?
- Godot is not the new Unity – The anatomy of a Godot API call5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-09-18
What Hacker News says?
Gave a look into Godot, find out the engine is deeply integrated with some custom scripting language that leads to performance issues [0] (Unreal learnt from this and got rid UnrealScript), support object-oriented design over ECS [1] and are still trying to support OpenGL when the rest of the industry is dropping it in favour of focusing on modern APIs like Vulkan [2] but progress is at least being made with Godot 4…
Comment linking /posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/
on “Videos of Godotcon 2023”Submitted Godot is not the new Unity – The anatomy of a Godot API call as a story · 56 points
HN discussionPerformance is one issue with C#: https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity...
Comment linking /posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/
on “Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should”Yep, Unity wants 4% from me if that’s what they change? So be it. I can’t use Unreal for my studio and Godot is a pile of garbage for anything serious. Unity knows this. https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity...
Comment linking /posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/
on “OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps”This rather dampened by enthusiasm for Godot: https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity... It's carrying a lot of performance baggage and there seems to be no sense of urgency in fixing it.
Comment linking /posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/
on “OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps”