For .NET specifically, you would need to reach for 3rd party frameworks. Avalonia in particular is excellent.

> small team

Yes, we need to be more lenient on Microsoft. They're a tiny little startup after all, they barely have 10 employees and three of them are cleaners.

Under his rule, lootboxes were added to FIFA. He also famously mused about charging Battlefield players $1 for reloading their weapon, once they're immersed in the game enough to not want to break the flow

Besides no strict typing, Godot also has a huge issue with string-based development. Everything is a string. I'm surprised calling GDScript functions isn't done with string literals like "function"()

Godot 4 greatly reduces this reliance on strings in the api, though. It has lambdas too.

What hurdle?

It must be one old article, because what rounds the corner is .NET 7, while .NET 6 and minimal APIs have been available for a better part of a year already

Not quite as feature-rich, though. Once I started using Nova's subgrid and overlaying widgets, for example, it's very hard to go back to a launcher that doesn't allow them.

Ooo! That does sound pretty good. I had no idea you could even do that with it. Damn, now I'm bummed to see Nova go the way it has.

Ashley Williams is gone

It's not really authentication. Rather, a way of saying "yeah, I agree to the terms yadda yadda". Seeing how there's no other way of handling it right now, they're using what tools they have

Seeing how there's no other way, well...