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It's a big boost for .NET in general, too.

Why would you say that? Sorry, I don't know much about Unity Technologies.

You can use C# in Unity which is huge (and partly why I'm leaning towards unity if I ever get into that space vs Unreal)

Unity's flavor of C# is years behind modern C# though. They're supposed to use IL2CPP to fix that but 2 years later [1] it's still only used in one platform (iOS) and a half (WebGL). They also have some modicum of support for .NET Core but it's unusable since a lot of existing code just doesn't work.

They have some super talented people, but I frankly think they're just strapped for resources. I hope this round of investments will allow them to scale their engineering team and get scripting side of things more solid.

With all the recent C#/.Net open sourcing, they have a lot of tools at their disposal, but from my perspective they're not using them to their full potential.

[1] http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/20/the-future-of-scripting-...

Unity joined the .NET Foundation in April and has publicly stated that they are working on support for the most recent versions of C# [1].

[1] http://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/04/01/unity-joins-the-net-foun...

They announced the same thing on the 2014 post.

They do have some kind of mono compiler update in alpha according to their roadmap [1], not for the runtime.

I wouldn't hold my breath, that's all.

[1] https://unity3d.com/unity/roadmap

But now there is an open source and cross platform compiler/runtime that they can use, dot net core. It should be much easier to incorporate that into unity.

Believe they are working on a mono upgrade as per this[1] tweet:

"@dsyme working on Mono upgrade which should help. [..]"

[1] https://twitter.com/jon_cham/status/743965646854234114

In the 5.4 latest beta they just added Android implementation of IL2CPP.

Why exactly is it huge and better than other scripting options?

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