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Godot 4.2 Released

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Great to see another release from the Godot team. I've been using Godot 4 a lot over the past few months and it has always been a joy.

Great stuff in this release. Also thanks to the influx of former Unity users a lot of tools / modules / templates have been given a shot in the arm and the general maturity of Godot has increased a great deal recently. Its not yet at a level that some people would want, but its great to see progress.

The addition of hot reload of extensions finally makes C++ programming on the new Godot bearable. It was a deal breaker when I touched the game engine from 4.1 and this release delievered exactly what I wanted.

The editor restarts fast enough that, for me, it was a tolerable part of the iteration process. But yeah this is a massive improvement; GDExtension is a really important part of what makes Godot attractive for serious game development.

Is support for webgames/HTML5 fully re-added yet? It's hard to tell, as few things have been announced on it, and the lack of webgame questions on the forum about 4.x is not reassuring.

I was looking into the state of that in the last week or so and I believe the answer is: not really, it's still generally recommended to use the LTS version (3) for projects targeting web/HTML5.

Looks like I have to take another try at this.

Moving from Unity is hard, but I really feel like that company is on the brink of collapse.

I think its worth it. Godot is an excellent game engine / community / project / software. And you can do whatever you want[0] with it and its source code with no chance of having that taken away from you.

I doubt Unity is going to disappear any time soon, but they are doing a pretty good job of demonstrating the benefits of free software.

[0] obviously the MIT license does technically come with some conditions

Unity keeps doing stupid things.

It's still much more mature than Godot, but at what cost.

You can always start ramping up by doing side projects or prototypes with Godot while keeping your main on Unity.

The day is coming when Godot will get its own AAA rendering implementations, and people will migrate en masse.

Congrats to the greater Godot team. Inspiring work

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