Will Defold support an official alternative language like Godot does?

[Chung_Xa]

At least we can get 10+ C# devs (just for fun)

[Qws]

@Mathias_Westerdahl

Harder is still not a guarantee.
Getting readable C++ code from a binary is absolutely doable.

While it is doable, the effort to reverse engineer that will be magnitude higher…

@Mathias_Westerdahl

Also note that we will compile the C# into regular libraries, just like C++, using the AOT pipeline from dotnet. So they’ll be just as easy/hard as any other C-like language.

Then that is better than I thought… I have no problem with C#, it is my first language, made UWP apps my self (also .NET Native/AOT) and I like the performance.

But when Mono, Xamarin founder and the man who advocated C# to Unity, himself says that C# for game development is his biggest mistake in his career and that he regrets. Is kind of alarming.

[thejustinwalsh]

While it is still in the early stages and not ready for prime time, you may want to take a look at Static Hermes, a JS engine that can AOT compile to native code. It is an evolution of Hermes, an already impressive JS engine that AOT compiles to bytecode and is jitless.

This is a good talk about it here:

Static Hermes: the Next Generation of Hermes - Tzvetan Mikov | React Native EU 2023

I made an initial POC with raylib, GitHub - thejustinwalsh/sh-raylib: raylib bindings for static hermes, but this repo may have attrophied as I have not kept up with head on the static hermes branch.

And finally the community thread: How to try Static Hermes · facebook/hermes · Discussion #1137 · GitHub

Initial typescript support is there but needs a little improvement.

C# seems like a more stable and complete implementation, and the ex-unity crowd is a welcome addition for sure.

When the APIs stablize for an additional community scripting language support, I would be happy to take a crack at bringing Typescript/Javascript along for the ride. Static Hermes essentially has a zero cost FFI, and I imagine the work required to get C# working and marshalling over a C ABI would allow me to quickly implement the static hermes bindings / support.

[britzl]

@thejustinwalsh

When the APIs stablize for an additional community scripting language support, I would be happy to take a crack at bringing Typescript/Javascript along for the ride.

This is what we hope will happen too! The idea is to make it easier for others to create their own language bindings in a more integrated way.