Please work with Xamarin to make Mono for UE a reality

[anonymous_user_c1ad179f1 (anonymous_user_c1ad179f)]

We’d love to support additional programming languages someday, including C#. That’s why we made the engine extensible to allow new scripting language plugins to be created by third parties. (The upcoming SkookumScript UE4 plugin looks awesome!!)

Does this mean that based on your EULA SkookumScript and similar plugins will have to be free?

I would rather work on integrating .NET Core (.NET 5) as it is open source now, on very liberal license, and is being actively ported to other platforms.

I would to but i don’t see this being viable any time soon. Mainly because its going to take time for it to be ported to the current platforms UE publishes to. And if there are a few platforms missing, what then? will UE not integrate with it because it would be writing in C# would not cover all platforms? or would they roll out new platforms as they become available?

Considering this i doubt we will see UE adopting first class support for 4-5+ years.

It is going to look nearly identical to the C++ in Unreal, because you are dealing with a very robust API, not the language directly. I feel like the people asking for C# in Unreal, are really asking for Epic to change Unreal to function like Unity.

No that is not what we are saying, there is fundamentally huge differences between C+ and C# through its syntax, core libraries and compilation methods that make it a large hurdle when learning a new tool and framework such as UE.