BEPUphysics VS UnrealCLR

Go and have a look at Bepu Physics v2: https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2

It can be quite performant these days, sadly I'm stuck developing in Unity Mono C# which is quite a bit behind.

> The other problem with simd is that in modern cpu-centric languages it often requires a rewrite for every vector width.

It does not: https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2/blob/master/BepuUtiliti...

Also you can’t go to GPU for most tasks SIMD is used in CPUs today. Good luck parsing HTTP headers with that.

This may be your personal experience but it is used successfully and happily by many in a variety of domains way different to "boring OOP back-ends". No popular general purpose language is confined to a single domain like you describe. C# lets you do things like writing a competitive Redis implementation[0], advanced physics engine that beats Jolt[1] or a game engine that does not rely on C++ or C[2], cross-platform applications[3] and so on and so forth. The language itself lets you go from high level FP style approach for business domain modeling to very low-level data crunching that is competitive with systems programming languages.

[0]: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/benchmarking/results...

[1]: https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2

[2]: https://www.stride3d.net

[3]: https://avaloniaui.net

The best pure-C# physics library (hands-down) is bepuphysics2, which unfortunately is mainly a 3D physics library, but could be used for 2D if you wanted to get your hands dirty.

Bepu Physics is pretty good and is written in really optimized C#, the author's blog post are really interesting to read.

I use https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2. I haven't worked with 3d physics engines before so I can't really comment on it's quality but it is definitely an impressive project! The developer is very active and helpful and some of the demo scenes are pretty large and complex.

https://github.com/nxrighthere/UnrealCLR

I'm also surprised though they haven't just gone and added C# support as a first class option, it seems like such an obvious win.

You can use C# in unreal: https://github.com/nxrighthere/UnrealCLR, they even got an epic megagrant.

Surprise motherfucker

UnrealCLR

UnrealCLR has an Epic megagrant and supports .NET 6 already.

I mean, technically Unreal does have C# support via their community, but it lags a bit behind the engine and isn’t as fully featured as Unity or even Godot https://github.com/nxrighthere/UnrealCLR

Biggest thing to note is that there's no stable release as of yet, so using UnrealCLR right now might not be the best idea for commercial games. There's also a few engine APIs missing from UnrealCLR, but from my own understanding, most of the common ones are there and ready to use.

Wish they would turn this into an officially supported project: https://github.com/nxrighthere/UnrealCLR