Whoa there. Electron is a catastrophic of hog of resources and performance. Elec...

jrk · on April 28, 2019

This is referring to Electron for the (PC-based) editor UI, not the deployed game UI.

(Plenty of criticisms of Electron still hold, of course.)

forrestthewoods · on April 28, 2019

Ah, that's fair.

Unity launched in 2005. Electron released in 2013. Still, saying Unity would have been "better served" by using Electron is more than a little unreasonable!

Using a primarily JavaScript environment for primarily C# content sounds like an absolute nightmare to me.

overgard · on April 28, 2019

Weirdly, when Unity was first starting out it had this "UnityScript" thing, which was javascript-but-not-quite. Luckily it's mostly been phased out (I don't think newer versions even support it)