[makotech221]

Yeah I think Unity just doesn't have the technical skillset anymore to make the migration to coreclr. It keeps getting delayed and their tech leads keep dropping out.

Might I suggest https://github.com/stride3d/stride, which is already on .net 10 and doesn't have any cross-boundary overhead like Unity.

[WillPostForFood]

Progress has been painfully slow, but Unity does seem to be moving forward.

Unity updates on their plans and progress:

2022 - officially announced plans to switch to CoreCLR - https://unity.com/blog/engine-platform/unity-and-net-whats-n...

2023 - Tech update - https://unity.com/blog/engine-platform/porting-unity-to-core...

Unite 2025 - CoreCLR based player scheduled for Unity 6.7 in 2026 - https://digitalproduction.com/2025/11/26/unitys-2026-roadmap...

[teraflop]

Maybe they are making progress. But given that they first started talking about this in 2018, and then in 2022 they announced that they were planning to release a version with CoreCLR in 2023, and then in 2024 they said it would be in beta in 2025, and now in 2025 they're planning to release it as a technical preview in 2026, but they're still talking about an "internal proof-of-concept" as though it's something coming in the future...

As an outsider, it certainly seems like there's reason for skepticism.

[bentt]

Nice link, thanks.

[999900000999]

Stride has a fraction of the features as unity.

Godot is the only real open source competitor, their C# support is spotty. If I can't build to Web it's useless for game jams as no one should be downloading and running random binaries.

A real sandbox solution with actual GPU support is needed.

[dustbunny]

Writing C# in godot is a bad choice. Use GDScript and directly write c++ as a module. Skip "HD extension" completely. Godots build system is easy enough to use. Just add new classes to the engine using c++ if you don't want to use GDScript. The GDScript workflow is honestly great. Using C# is like the worst of all worlds.

[CyanLite2]

I think WebAssembly could become that sandboxed solution. .NET Blazor WASM is moving away from mono to CoreCLR (just like Unity, with an early preview in late 2026). WASM now has really good SIMD support, native GC, large memory support, and with WebGPU we could finally see some native WASM games running at native speeds.

[eole666]

Godot 4 C# web export is coming soon : https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/106125

[linguistics__]

> Yeah I think Unity just doesn't have the technical skillset anymore

It's not a technical skillset issue, it's a case of lacking resources, leadership changing priorities and changing requirements mid-development, causing a lot of work to be redone.

We still have highly skilled developers working in this area, if we can just actually be allowed to do (and keep) we work we have.

[darubedarob]

Imagine you have to communicate that rewrite and drop of support for bought "addons" to the people who went on that shopping spree. Who then would have to explain the "wecan"-value drop + cost of recovery of the same abilities to the shareholders and customers. The magpiesnest of bought companies tech is a tarbaby for any tech lead, the rewrite a career ender for the CEOs office.