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Supporting the web target for c# is a HUGE deal for me as someone that makes hobbyist game jam projects and doesn't want to learn another language (already know c#, not thrilled about learning GDScript).

I can't understate how much of a big deal the growing support for c# is. Both for non-game devs who want to dip their feet in making games and also luring in current Unity developers.

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GDScript is just Python that has some tweaks.

For example to preload a child node you put this in a node's member space.

onready var enemy = $Enemy

Variables needing to be declared with the var keyword is the biggest change in the language.

var flag = some_function_result()

Other changes include expanding Python with more keywords useful for the editor and game programming.

It is very nice for prototyping. Still looking forward to that C# AOT support in later releases.

It doesn't have lambda, even the bad lambda from python.

This is an intentional design decision in the language - not having lambda functions / functions as first-class citizens makes the code easier to optimize internally.

It also makes me feel like I'm programming in 1987. LuaJIT does fine with lambdas and I'd bet good money chibi-scheme is faster than GDScript. Its not a really good excuse.

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