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[JulianGindi]

I'm trying to get started with Game Development and want to get some advice from the masses. I have pretty significant programming experience and am trying to determine which language to use within Unity. Are there any downsides to using one of the scripting languages over C#? Is C# good to learn in general in the realm of game development?

Thanks for the responses!

[bombjack]

Hi,

I use C# in Unity mainly because it seemed the obvious choice for me.
Although the unity C# script are spécific to unity most of your code could re-used in other program.
As well as some free C# code.

The UnityScript is more or less a modified version of javascript which makes it less clean IMHO than C#.

And the Boo option... well I nearly never found any real-work code done with it.

Regarding the landscape of game game programming, C# could also be used with MonoGame and the Playstation SDK.


To summerize, go with C# at least within Unity

[JulianGindi]

Thanks for the quick reply! Sounds like C# makes sense for me.

[Polly]

Support for Boo will be dropped in Unity 5.0 .. so i would at least recommend not going with Boo.

[shyamguth]

I agree with the post above, and would recommend C#.

When I started with Unity, I first used UnityScript because I thought it was basically JavaScript. The more I used it, the more I realized it is not really JavaScript at all, and is instead a custom language for Unity with JavaScript-like syntax. On the other hand, C# is a general-purpose programming language with lots of applications outside of Unity, so IMO it is more appealing due to its broader base.

You will find many of the assets/plugins from the asset store written in C# as well. While it is possible to use libraries written in C# with your own UnityScript code, I've found it easier to write my own code in C# from the beginning so that I don't have to deal with compilation order problems.