For those wondering, it's most likely a jab at unity with it's new license model, as you could code in C# in it.
Is c# mainly just used in this engine?
It's probably a tiny fraction of the C#/dotnet ecosystem. But hobbyist meme creators mostly care about games, I guess.
No, as other's have pointed out it's not. There are plenty of other areas to use it, even in other game engines. OP is just trying to make it seem funny by making the exaggerated narrative that it's the only use case for C#. If Boo was still around in Unity this joke would been accurate with that, don't think that was used anywhere else
It is also the language of DotNet framework so hardly.
I mean Windows is also undergoing enshitification it could still be true?
Dotnet has been cross platform for a while now (so long it's not even called dotnet core anymore)
It's been cross platform and open source for like 10 years now.
While true, businesses have it even harder to migrate to Linux (what else is there when talking enshittification?) than private users. Windows and dotnet won't go anywhere anytime soon.
No, C# is a general purpose language that Unity has a botched, outdated version of.
Not at all. Unity's use of C# is pretty unconventional even. Not representative at all.
You think C# is a Unity thing?
I doubt the number of C# developers would drop even 1% due to Unity fucking itself.
Me writing my silly little forms apps in silly little VS Pretty drop-down fields :)
Oh, VS is not "little", it's one of the bloatiest pieces of software on earth.
Also, Forms? How dare you. :p
Ok. What am I in the dark about this time?
Guessing it’s about Unity changing their royalty structure.
Which is kind of weird because most C# devs aren't doing games.
Yeah. Maybe c# game developers will drop. But they're actually a drop in the ocean.
Surely other engines use it? I know godot supports it. Not to mention half the business software of the world (pre cloud) seemingly built with it. etc
Unreal, Unity’s primary competitor, doesn’t. Mainstream gamers seem to only know about the two. Anyway, it’s a meme. I use C# for exclusively boring corporate stuff, and will continue.
It's a joke built in hyperbole for sure. A lot of my friends are C# devs they're not going anywhere.
A whole lot more than game engines uses C#.
Look at all these C# dev who don't know the witch hunts are starting in 2024.
Time to become a Visual Basic .Net developer
Jokes on you, I am already one! (yes my company chosen dev language is really vbnet)
My old boss loved VB.Net. I still remember a time when I helped him out by solving mysterious bug for him.
He used to have this class he copied about to do database stuff. Not the worst thing of itself, but it was oddly specific in some ways for reused code. E.g. It had a function that took an enum value and returned connection string. And of course what options were in the enum varied.
So I come in one day and two other devs are already peering over his shoulder trying to help. The program is crashing when it tries to connect to the database and they can see for some reason the connection string is a single letter. I ask to see the function that is getting the connection string and see he's removed the parameter, but the compiler didn't pick up on it because:
So instead of passing an enum to a function, it was calling the function with no parameter, then using the enum value to index the returned string into a single character, which was then treated as a string and passed to the SqlClient constructor.
Nice meme. I'll just ignore the fact most C# devs aren't game devs but...
Many other engines use C#. Godot is compatible with it, for example.
Thinking that C# is just Unity is a MASSIVE disservice to C# and dotnet imo. Unity's usage of C# is really crummy, basically relegating a very powerful language to working as a weird scripting language.
Absolutely. C# in Unity always seemed to me like a square peg in a round hole.
From my perspective (teaching game programming classes), it's incredibly clunky for beginners when compared to others. Unity needed a tightly integrated, noob-proof scripting language. Despite C# being the primary language, it's integration and setup with the rest of Unity seems surprisingly lacking, and, like you're referencing, you don't even get convenient use of the broader C# / Mono / .net ecosystem, which makes skills more portable. Even the "bad old days" of Flash/ActionScript were much easier for students, and results in more portable coding skills (e.g. at least transitioning to Web / JavaScript from Flash / ActionScript is easier)
It's much easier to teach same lessons / concepts using Godot, though sadly Unity is much better known. Hopefully the present pricing chaos might shift the needle a bit on this!
Agreed, I feel like if someone starts their C# journey exclusively in Unity, they won't have a solid foundation in the actual language, just that specific implementation of it as a scripting language.
Because the only possible thing to do in c# is unity stuff.........
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I mean why else would you want to use C# when there's Rust 🦀 and all the awesome tooling and libraries around it...
Rust really isn't all that. Plus C# is used for all kinds of corporate stuff where Rust levels of performance aren't needed. It's also used in several other game engines
Wait what? What happens in jan 2024?
Edit: ah, unity's new install based pricing.
Unity drama
Rip
Because ASP.NET isn't a thing at all...
Hot take (maybe?) C# looks like a great language, better than Java. I wish I had an excuse to use it.
no love for godot?
I hear Godot's own scripting language is preferable to C# if you're willing to learn it.
C# is technically faster, but according to one of the cassette beasts' co-directors, you can maximize productivity and performance by doing most stuff in gdscript and skipping directly to c++ for the bottlenecks.
Fun meme but corporate job listings in my town contradict the premise.
Let them C# I'm sticking to C++ and Python.
Is it pissible for programmers to encounter a silly little meme without taking it serious and going into a frenzy explaining that actually its premise is wrong
No, it would be pretty painful to piss something like that.
Maybe you just need to drink more cranberry juice...
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