A modern programming language that makes developers happier.

kotlinlang

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcb3cdpAFFA>

Also, here is a video showing the hot reload feature allowing you to write and test code while the game is running
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAzNJgsn2ZM>

Wouldn't it be better to do the bindings without JS?

<@ULHQMPE1K> Not at all :smile:
Working with Unreal and C++ is really painful. (not to mention macro abuse, crashes and the need to restart the editor manually too many times for my taste)
Using Kotlin with Javascript increases productivity a lot.. It could make sense to use Kotlin Native for release builds though. But for the time being, that is really far in my roadmap. I think this is a small step in the right direction, and I'm planning to improve it further, and reach a point where the programmer experience is the best I can think of.

<@U3XS3MBHB> I just don't feel too much idea of making wrapper on wrapper that wrap such smell cpp code.
It's kinda of like having a crumbling foundation on another crumbling foundation and then build something else on it. If kotlin layer would develop much faster than js, then such dependency seems a bit more like a obstacle than a solution to the problem.
Kotlin-native is sadly not suitable for gamedev for now, much more perform-effective is jvm+lwjgl and waiting for Project Panama glory. Anyway I will also give a star there, maybe it's the right direction after all :slightly_smiling_face:

Then ask Epic and Jetbrains to make Kotlin a first class citizen of UE5 XD

Hm, the js plugin does not support Unreal 4.27 and I did not see any activity from the publishers since the version dropped...

Thats the downside of wrappers for wrappers I guess. Even if you perfectly maintain your end, everyone is screwed when one dependency goes away :disappointed:

<@U3XS3MBHB> do you have plans on continuing work on this?

There's an update already in their github repository, it takes time for updates to get to the Unreal Marketplace so I guess it will appear eventually. Meanwhile, it's possible to download it from their repos

<https://github.com/ncsoft/Unreal.js-core/blob/master/UnrealJS.uplugin#L7>