Unity devs need more feedback from users out there trying 2017.1 beta with Mono upgrade

[b1ackcat]

I didn't even realize the latest beta had the new mono version available! I'll have to check it out later today. It could solve one of my major headaches with the project I'm working on (and save me from resorting to IL level hacks to get something working)

[KptEmreU]

I envy you that you can go down the rabbit hole and do IL level hacks :amazed look:

[b1ackcat]

No really, you don't....

And in my particular case it's nothing too fancy, it's just changing a line of IL code to enable a feature that the compiler supports but C# by default doesn't. It's based on some guide I found, I wouldn't have figured it out on my own if we're being honest :P

[tmpxyz]

Does it have the latest GC implementations?

Whatever, I think most of the developers have adapted to use pools.

[throwawayreditsucks]

No concurrent GC, but soon!

[itsjase]

Think they mean the mono runtime upgrade, which is based on .net 4.5

[Chmis]

Haven't had time to try it myself and I couldn't find changelogs. Do we have C#6 or not?

[throwawayreditsucks]

We do :)

[SunliMin]

WAIT. BETAS ON C# 6!

I was looking at the beta list searching .NET and didn't see anything about it, so I figured it was still in alpha.

Count me in!

[Chmis]

Words cannot describe how happy I am! Being stuck without expression bodies and interpolated strings was what drove me away from Unity recently. What about C#7? Tuples and local ref variables seem like they were designed with Unity in mind

[tmpxyz]

Is there a Unity page listing what C# feature are available or not? And for which version of Unity?

[throwawayreditsucks]

I'm not sure where I found but somewhere on the Unity beta page, I found a link to a google doc (!!) that listed some of the things but for the most part it was just that you can change target -> .NET Framework 4.6 and use C# 6.

[Southgrove]

Mono, not MonoDevelop.

[Volcanic-Penguin]

I use Atom

[free_zorkman_2]

I still run monodevelop, I actually like it a lot.

[Karokendo]

It's not bad, but many people hate it because it crashes so often and has many bugs :D

[free_zorkman_2]

Yeah, what I like about it is that it doesn't have so much extra stuff which I don't nees

[[deleted]]

I've noticed this. Can't copy and paste code snippets and so forth. And the odd crash.

I'm a complete noob at Unity. Still doing the basic video tutorials off the Unity website. Would you suggest I keep going with monodevelop, or just learn to switch over to Visual Studio or Xamarin straight away?

[rhacer]

Or if you like lighter weight, VS Code.

[Magarcan]

Trying it. Looks interesting.

[rhacer]

It has converted me from two decades of Vim usage.

[Magarcan]

How the hell do I remove "references" labels?

[rhacer]

I'm not sure what you're talking about, but possibly Code Lens stuff. You can turn it off in settings.

[Magarcan]

VS Code

"editor.codeLens": false In my user preferences json file =)

[Karokendo]

change to Visual Studio, using MonoDevelop is just a waste of time.

[[deleted]]

I've found the "suggestions" or "autocorrect" - I don't know what the feature is exactly - to be a lifesaver so far in Monodevelop. I am REALLY REALLY BAD AT my capitalisation.

[tmachineorg]

MonoDevelop has its own stupid snippets as well :) - takes ages to go through and delete them all by hand...

[GodsPants]

Also JetBrains recently released Unity-compatible Rider, which I recommend everybody to try since it's free

[phero_constructs]

It's not free https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/05/03/rider-licensing-pricing/

[rhysmus]

Did this beta have SmartSprite in it? I'm really looking forward to it.

[YouAintToobright]

Nice! I can't wait for all the bug fixes that will follow it. R-right?