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One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

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[โ€“] Afiefh@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, every single project regardless of proprietary or open source has a backlog like that. It's just that open source projects show the backlog and don't have marketing people telling what is and is not in the backlog.

[โ€“] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

All software development has issues that are simply left unfixed. Some bugs are hard to fix, and don't really matter in the long run.

Example: they don't even bother with memory management on cruise missiles, since eventually its gonna reach its target...