NAnamiheike·Jun 21, 2022Submission
Ts2gd: Compile TypeScript to GDScript
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ts2gd
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ts2gd
💥 Compile TypeScript to GDScript for Godot
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💥 Compile TypeScript to GDScript for Godot
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I've started using Godot recently, and I absolutely love it! I've written a lot of words - some of them even here on HN - about my frustrations around Unity, most specifically…
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Nov 2020 | 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 2020 | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2021 | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2021 | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2021 | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2021 | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2021 | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2021 | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2021 | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2021 | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2021 | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2021 | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2021 | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2022 | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2022 | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2022 | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2022 | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2022 | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI've started using Godot recently, and I absolutely love it!
I've written a lot of words - some of them even here on HN - about my frustrations around Unity, most specifically slow compile times and a poorly-thought-out and hobbled API that always seems to be 20% broken in frustrating ways. Godot fixes so many of the frustrations that I previously had with Unity, and it's such a breath of fresh air!
The APIs are generally well thought out and a pleasure to deal with. 2D always felt second-class in Unity - in Godot it's a clear first class citizen (I mean, just see OP). Things generally just make sense, and there's a lot of bells and whistles that I've found personally really useful.
The compile times are virtually instantaneous if you use GDScript - you can even hot load in new changes into a running game (although since it compiles so fa
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st, I rarely even need to do that!) - and that is SUCH an important thing for game development that I can't even explain how great it is.
Also, the UI of the editor is just SNAPPY! Man do I love how fast everything feels in the editor. I hate to keep railing on Unity, but every time you edit a C# file at all in Unity, Unity has to do a reload of assets and it takes 5-10 seconds for the editor to be usable again. Compare this with Godot, which loads new assets virtually instantaneously, and practically never lags for any time at all. It's amazing. I can never go back.
It is a bit rough around the edges - it's only being developed by a small open source team rather than the hundreds of paid developers over at places like Unity and Unreal - but it's really a joy to use.
P.S. The only real problem I found with Godot is that GDScript needs a better typesystem, so I started working on a hobby project to compile TypeScript into GDScript[1]. It's a massive WIP right now but if that sounds like fun to you, I could really use some help.
[1]: https://github.com/johnfn/ts2gd