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Unity will die or be replaced by the end of the century. Once people swarm on AR/VR apps and realize how annoying it is to develop things using Unity Editor, at least compared to the luxury of web dev, some alternative will have to pick up from there.

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"By the end of the century" ? Yeah that seems like a pretty safe bet, I sure hope a lot of things will have changed (hopefully for the better) by then.

Comparing 3D development to web shows depth of knowledge in this. Are you a frontend web developer ? After apple broke out with Epic and Unreal is mostly AAA development, Unity is the de-facto standard for smaller indie development and MR development too (even for Quest). Divesting movies is because of profitability issues, otherwise the engine is well suited for 3d effeects and such

> Unity will die or be replaced by the end of the century

To be fair you can be say that about just about every game engine out there (yes, even the open-source ones) and be right 99% of the time.

I think there’s a common misunderstanding among programmers about what game dev is like and who is involved. It’s mostly not about programming. Which is why the engines all have rich UIs first, text editors second.

Given that there's still close to 80 years of the century left, this strikes me as a safe bet.

By the end of the century? Not exactly a bold prediction, that's 77 years away.

Luxury of web dev?! I'm not sure I agree it's luxurious.

Edit: End of the decade...

you mean by the end of this decade

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