alt Hacker NewsThere's not a lot of churn in Unity, but that's more because they mostly fail to ship anything of significance than due to excellence in backwards compatibility.
I was in the audience when DOTS was announced, and a decade later Cities Skylines II showed how ill equipped for prime time it remains (not that the developers were blameless).
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stingraycharles • yesterday at 5:08 AM
Cities Skylines II is such an immense resource hog compared to what it actually does.
> There's not a lot of churn in Unity
Deprecating entire languages (probably the right call long term, oddly enough Godot is keeping GDScript around).
Render pipelines (URP and HDRP to be merged, built in likewise being deprecated).
Most of the things around DOTS.
Most of the things around networking.
The whole package management system (I mean, it’s a nice idea, still counts as churn).
Also multiple approaches to UI and input.
I would say that a lot of the new stuff is built on good ideas but I sometimes wish they’d slow down a bit and ship actually thought out and finished features.
And most of the above already had alternatives previously, this isn’t even getting into wholly new things like Sentis, if you are working on an old project thankfully it will mostly keep working, but if you need to keep up to date with the current mechanisms and practices, there’s a lot of churn.
Maybe not as much as in Godot, but to be honest that other engine is going through a lot of evolution so instability and a feature explosion is to be expected (despite terrain still being a plugin, while Unity’s own terrain implementation is oddly dated and abandoned, while their water system felt like a tech demo and more often than not the asset store is expected to do the heavy lifting), while Unity tries to appeal to everyone and capture headlines it seems. Just look at the marketing around DOTS (and how long it took for it to be usable).