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Godot launched 0.1 in February 2014 and got to 1.0 in December 2014.

The distance in time between the launches of Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5 was 8 years (April 2014 to April 2022). Unreal Engine 5 development started in May 2020 and had an early access release in May 2021.

Bevy launched 0.1 in 2020 and is at 0.16 now in 2025. 5 years later and no 1.0 in sight.

If you want people to use your OSS projects (maybe you don't), you have to accept that perfect is the enemy of good.

At this point, regulators and legislators are trying to force people to use the Rust ecosystem - if you want a non-GC language that is "memory safe," it's pretty much the de facto choice. It is long past time for the ecosystem to grow up.

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Ygg211mo ago

> Godot launched 0.1 in February 2014 and got to 1.0 in December 2014.

Yeah because that's when it was open sourced, NOT DEVELOPED.

See https://godotengine.org/article/first-public-release/

> Godot has been an in-house engine for a long time and the priority of new features were always linked to what was needed for each game and the priorities of our clients.

I checked the history and it was known by another name Larvita.

> If you want people to use your OSS project

Seeing how currently I have about 0.1 parts of me working on it, no I don't want to give people false sense of security.

> At this point, regulators and legislators are trying to force people to use the Rust ecosystem

Not ecosystem. Language. Ecosystem is a plus.

Further more the issue Bevy has is more of there aren't any good mature GUI libraries for Rust. Because cross OS GUIs were, are and will be a shit show.

Granted it's a shit show that can be directed with enough money.

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