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C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE

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HN · launched Aug 11, 2026 · 118 upvotes (top 6%) · 2 views

Niche: game development engines · 85 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -86% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Writing a full game engine along with a custom programming language (lexer, parser, bytecode VM/compiler) and an integrated development environment requires advanced computer science knowledge across graphics pipelines and language runtimes.

What it would actually take: Building a functional game engine with a bespoke language and IDE requires C# (.NET), rendering bindings (DirectX/Vulkan/OpenGL via Silk.NET or raylib), a custom compiler and virtual machine (recursive descent parser, AST, type checker, bytecode generator, and interpreter/JIT), plus an IDE built with Avalonia or ImGui featuring debuggers and language server protocols. The hard parts are writing a deterministic, garbage-collected language runtime that interacts seamlessly with the game loop without frame drops, along with robust scene graph and physics integration.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Lua - broad use in game engines, Unity - game engine with scripting, Godot - game engine for 2D/3D games, MonoGame - framework with asset pipeline, Dear ImGui - UI library for editors

Concerns raised: Using C# for scripting language seems redundant since C# is already high-level, Coupling scripting tightly into tool adds complexity and steep learning curve, May not suit action games with asset-dependent interactions like collisions, Separation for editors requires client-server protocol adding significant complexity, Risk of solving every problem at once instead of focused problem scope

Feature requests: Support for Lua as embedded scripting language, Literate Programming support, Cross-platform support like AvaloniaUI

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1088 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #57 of 1089 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 284 days after the earliest competitor.

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