The funny thing about his resignation is that xoofx had a CoreCLR prototype already working around 2016-ish, but the company had "other priorities" and only took it seriously until recently.

The guy should just have been left alone and shielded from company bullshit to do the migration, or empowered to fight.

I know this is one sided but: Whoever from high-management lost this guy is an absolute loser waste of space who didn't do his job and will blame xoofx for “not fighting harder” or some other bullshit. Fuck companies, and fuck loser managers.

Some people like nice tooling with performance.

Interpreter code is never faster than a dynamic compiler, otherwise what about doing games in Python?

As mentioned on my comment, GDextension experience kind of sucks.

I don't see how this article could possibly support the argument that C# is slower than GDScript

It compares several C# implementations of raycasts, never directly compares with GDScript, blames the C# performance on GDScript compatibility and has an strike-out'ed section advocating dropping of GDScript to improve C# performance!

Meanwhile, Godot's official documentation[1] actually does explicitly compare C# and GDScript, unlike the the article which just blames GDScript for C#'s numbers, claiming that C# wins in raw compute while having higher overhead calling into the engine

[1]: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/about/faq.html#doc-fa...

One word.

Headers.

That's just the start. The C++ build system and package managers are the stuff if nightmares. Modern languages are significantly easier to use.

Don't get me wrong, if you offer a job with a 200k base salary and give me 6 months to learn C++ I'll do it. But I won't enjoy it, and I definitely won't do it as a hobby.

You're asking if going from a high level language to a low level language on steroids is difficult?

Pointers, manual memory management, and the design by committee standard library are not fun.

I write mostly backend stuff for a living, big chunk of it in Node/TS but also C# with modern .NET. I also have to dabble with Unity and Unreal both for work and a hobby project. I technically learned C++ in uni but really, I hate every single second I have to spend doing Unreal Engine work. I genuinely despise how obsolete and hard to write C++ is compared to modern languages. It didn't bother me in university because that was all I knew at the time but it's hard to justify existence of header files today. Add macros everywhere, really bad compilation errors, really hard to read syntax with a lot of unnecessary bloat and you get something that is just not likable. I'm sure you can get used to it given enough time spent in that ecosystem, but I can tell you as someone writing 4 different languages on day to day basis, C++ is difficult, and it's not because of pointers.

Java was designed to make fun of C++, then C# was designed to make fun of Java, so you're missing two layers of fun.

I'll vibe code stuff in GDscript, and I guess I more or less understand some of it.

But C# is what I've used for over a decade. C# has vastly better IDE support. It's a more complete language.

Plus a lot of C# assets/libraries don't really have GDScript counterparts.

I'll add that C# have better performances than gdscript. It doesn't make a difference for most of the things you code in a game, but it comes in handy when needed.