Why is Unity the most popular engine?

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@AlexRamallo;616439

UE4 definitely has a problem with the coding situation. Besides being more intimidating for beginners, C++ is a pain in the *** to work with most of the time in UE. Combine the enormous size of the codebase with the slowness of Visual Studio, and you get a not very pleasant experience. Buying Visual Assist is pretty much required unless you want to sit around for 5 minutes every time intellisense wants to suggest a code completion.

So you can only build your logic in Blueprints, or delve into the annoyance that is C++ in UE4. There’s no middle-ground.

It’d be great if there was a Blueprints scripting language so that I can write my logic in a programming language without having to rebuild the entire engine (or do a partial rebuild/‘hot reload’ and hope it doesn’t crash while that’s happening). It’d also make sharing snippets of code and features much easier.

Unity is much friendlier in this aspect, which probably also contributes to it having a bigger community.

IMHO situation is much better with Hot Reload nowadays. When I tried it about a year ago it was crippling and I decide to stick to BP for as long as I can. Now I’m moving all gameplay logic to C++ and I did not bumped into any HotReload issues/crashes during this 2 weeks and HotReload takes only 5-10 seconds most of the time.

However it’s really annoying that you basically must use VAX/Resharper, otherwise it’s nearly impossible to do anything at all