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Strong response.

I'm not sure I would have been so generous to the author of the article this is in reply to. But I suppose that's a skill of a successful open source leader -- to turn interactions with critics into productive discussions rather than arguments, and perhaps even turn the critics into supporters.

It seems to have been that author who chose the FUD-ful title "Godot is not the new Unity". I guess there are times in life where you face a choice: be fair, reasonable, and intelligent, or... just try to get them clicks.

Well, that article got a lot of click. Good job?

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I said this not long ago in a different thread, but after reading this article I want to say it again. I'm very impressed with the management of the Godot project. They seem to be avoiding all the common mistakes and drama that so many projects fall prey to. They're doing everything professionally.

I have contributed a very small amount of code to Godot. In the process of doing so I was very impressed with the entire process. They were very supportive and quick to respond. Overall it was one of the best open-source contribution interactions I have experienced.

> I'm not sure I would have been so generous to the author of the article this is in reply to. But I suppose that's a skill of a successful open source leader -- to turn interactions with critics into productive discussions rather than arguments, and perhaps even turn the critics into supporters.

FWIW, reduz (Godot author) and sprudd ("Godot is not the new Unity" author) previously discussed this on Reddit[1], and sprudd was actually sounded pretty nice (the first reply even includes a "and I hope that I wasn't too rude in the article. :)").

Overall, I think the original article was written in good faith, just with a click-baity title (and I imagine reduz thought the same thing). That might have helped to avoid a more angry reply.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/16lti15/godot_is_not...

Common now, the original article is perfectly reasonable one, and that includes its title as well.

For the past few days everyone is talking about Unity, and I don't think it's exaggeration to say that Godot has become the de facto alternative in low to mid level game development.

Godot itself will (if not already is) benefit from that status a lot. Article that brings highlights parts well Godot is lacking compared to Unity is perfectly valid criticism to have.

> Godot itself will (if not already is) benefit from that status a lot. Article that brings highlights parts well Godot is lacking compared to Unity is perfectly valid criticism to have.

And that's because the author didn't even touch the "in-app" purchase and "in-app" ads capabilites from Godot x Unity, which is the way the studios complaining about the new Unity pricing, generate their income..

Agree 100%. The conversations sparked from this article are how the project improves. The maintainers seem very appreciative of it.

The original author is also diving in to help with the problem he saw, which is an ideal outcome for a bug report from a new user.

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