Godot is just AWESOME, I am very impressed with the progress the team makes and the overall direction of the project.
I was always excited about Game Dev (even started learning Computer Science and became a Software Engineer largely because I wanted to make games), dreamed of making my own small games but never really got to it. After I became a full-time Software Engineer, I never really found time or the right tools for making my own small games for fun. I recently discovered Bevy and gave it a try. ECS is a nice concept, but Bevy is more of a library and it's quite hard to make full-featured games using it (just like using SDL/something similar).
When I discovered Godot and gave it a try, I was so impressed: it's really nice for beginners, yet performant enough and has amazing community. This is exactly what I wanted to find, so I'm incredibly happy it exists and am very excited about the future development of Godot.
One thing I wish was different is choosing a different language as the native and "official" one. GDScript is OK and arguably pretty good Python-like language for beginners and rapid prototyping, C# is OK and is probably very nice to have because many people would be happy to switch from Unity, but I personally would be happier with either better C++ support (which I know exists in GDNative interface which was improved in 4.0) or something else.
C# is a fine language, but I have a feeling it has so much presence in GameDev just because of Unity. It's way too verbose and the tooling isn't as good (outside of full Visual Studio which I have no desire to use), but maybe "actual programming" part of GameDev isn't as important and I should just give in/use GDScript.
Yeah, I've seen those and I'm happy Godot moves in this direction, but using these tools would steer me away from the "default" and "primary" behavior, I'd potentially face more bugs/awkward development setups.
It might be worth if I'm serious about Game Development and ready to invest time and effort into customizing the tools, but what I'm looking for is "out of the box" experience which will make it easier for me to solve problems that I face (e.g. if I ask questions more people would be able to answer/help), the tutorials/resources I find will be more applicable etc.
As others mentioned in this thread, having first-class support for a language isn't the same as providing API for plugins and custom scripts.
I wish Godot chose a real existing programming language instead of building their own DSL. Even Lua might have been a decent choice, although I hate the syntax.
I was always excited about Game Dev (even started learning Computer Science and became a Software Engineer largely because I wanted to make games), dreamed of making my own small games but never really got to it. After I became a full-time Software Engineer, I never really found time or the right tools for making my own small games for fun. I recently discovered Bevy and gave it a try. ECS is a nice concept, but Bevy is more of a library and it's quite hard to make full-featured games using it (just like using SDL/something similar).
When I discovered Godot and gave it a try, I was so impressed: it's really nice for beginners, yet performant enough and has amazing community. This is exactly what I wanted to find, so I'm incredibly happy it exists and am very excited about the future development of Godot.
One thing I wish was different is choosing a different language as the native and "official" one. GDScript is OK and arguably pretty good Python-like language for beginners and rapid prototyping, C# is OK and is probably very nice to have because many people would be happy to switch from Unity, but I personally would be happier with either better C++ support (which I know exists in GDNative interface which was improved in 4.0) or something else.
C# is a fine language, but I have a feeling it has so much presence in GameDev just because of Unity. It's way too verbose and the tooling isn't as good (outside of full Visual Studio which I have no desire to use), but maybe "actual programming" part of GameDev isn't as important and I should just give in/use GDScript.