Unity Engine/Editor Publishes Reference C# Source Code

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Phoronix: Unity Engine/Editor Publishes Reference C# Source Code

Following Crytek putting out their CRYENGINE Sandbox editor source code, Unity Tech has published the C# reference code used by their Unity Engine and Unity Editor...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Unity-C-Sharp-Reference-Code

[hajj_3]

pretty weird that they are using C# for a game engine and not C++ which would give higher performance.

[uid313]

pretty weird that they are using C# for a game engine and not C++ which would give higher performance.

C# can be compiled down to native code using .NET Native.
Also you can code at a low-level like C and C++ using the unsafe keyword.

[Ananace]

The C# parts of their engine just seems to be native bindings to C++ code.

Their editor on the other hand seems to be quite a lot more C# code.

[PackRat]

Insert random Godot comment here.

[GreenByte]

pretty weird that they are using C# for a game engine and not C++ which would give higher performance.

Unity itself is c++, but their scripting language is c#. It just depends on the backend. You have mono with jit capabilities and il2cpp which converts c# to c++ and then compiles using native compile stack. And recently burst, which supports a quite limited subset of c# (no classes or other managed objects) and generates really really fast code (utilizing sse, avx you name it)

[bvbfan]

C# will never be considered as open source language, proprietery sh*t.

[starshipeleven]

C# will never be considered as open source language, proprietery sh*t.

Confusing C# with .NET?

[Kushan]

Confusing C# with .NET?

Either way he's wrong.

[bvbfan]

I'm not confusing them, both are sh*t, but of course .NET is the biggest one.