39 engineers on Hacker News describe using Unity first-hand: 6 endorse it, 16 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“What is not very useful is Unity's profiler, especially with "deep profile" enabled. It adds constant cost per method.”
regret · production · iliketrains · 2025-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There is also no official package specification for UPM (I also made that up as part of the purl)”
regret · production · larusso · 2025-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The artists reported they felt slightly less productive working in Unity's editor. I switched roles to finding and working around the undocumented bugs in Unity”
mixed · production · 2 yr · corysama · 2025-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it since I had it on my PowerMac G5 ... I never foresee myself swapping IDE's for any reason.”
endorse · production · 10 yr · lostgame · 2021-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Whenever I had to work with it in the past, we ran into bugs inside the closed-source C++ part of the engine which then delayed release or required expensive workarounds.”
regret · production · fxtentacle · 2020-08-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using unity since 18.10 because gnome always blackscreens on my 1070.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · useryman · 2019-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Unity + Blender for years and never had too many issues.”
endorse · personal · BoorishBears · 2016-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This was really the reason why we moved to Unity, because it was so much easier to code inside their sandbox.”
endorse · production · butabah · 2014-03-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love unity, 'pretty okay' is not good enough”
endorse · personal · johnsea · 2013-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Unity seemed very unstable and in general the experience was very disappointing.”
regret · personal · Skywing · 2012-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the system's performance as a desktop machine is at least %25 better than Unity/Gnome 3/KDE”
regret · personal · rcb · 2012-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the Unity stuff is not stable and is too rigid, so I switched to Xubuntu (Xfce)”
regret · personal · bad_user · 2012-08-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At first I liked it pretty well, but a few days later realized that I really missed the GNOME task bar”
regret · personal · fexl · 2011-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I didn't run into problems with Unity (different laptops and pcs).”
endorse · personal · kitsune_ · 2011-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The reason I'm not a fan of Unity is that not only did it break my workflow, but there appears to be no way to customize it”
regret · personal · gsoltis · 2011-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've tried Unity and I didn't like it.”
regret · personal · andreadallera · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Personally I didn't like Unity and the changes at all and I didn't want to bother to learn / get used to it.”
regret · personal · Atropos · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It impedes my workflow and it doesn't even come close to what a simple, developer centric manager should be”
regret · production · wildmXranat · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After trying very hard to get along in Unity and 11.10, I've given up”
regret · personal · jmoiron · 2011-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried Unity for about 3 hours, got annoyed by certain things hurting my work style”
regret · personal · angusgr · 2011-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Unity for over a month to give it a fair shot but I'm currently installing Xubuntu”
regret · personal · 0.1 yr · jasonkostempski · 2011-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Unity is still flawed, is totally unproductive for development work, and there's a distinct lack of customisation”
regret · personal · FuzzyDunlop · 2011-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Totally agree, both with the poster's very valid complaints about Unity and Gnome 3... I lost so much time dealing with this terrible "upgrade."”
regret · personal · sutro · 2011-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“using Unity for personal projects, switching to Godot”
neutral · personal · maiybe · 2026-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But I am hoping that Unity will deliver on the CoreCLR dream.”
neutral · production · iliketrains · 2025-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There is a reason both Unity and Unreal use uncompressed audio or ADPCM for sound effects.”
neutral · production · nearbuy · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use our own engine on Unity to render videos on the server”
neutral · production · takoynik · 2022-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we are using Unity, but I guess it depends on the project and your experience.”
neutral · production · markus_zhang · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we switched to Unity for business reasons most people thought it was a productivity reduction.”
neutral · production · corysama · 2020-02-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Builds require things like specific versions of Unity, Unreal, or a console SDK.”
neutral · production · shinymark · 2019-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I currently build deterministic multiplayer WebGL games in Unity, built via C#->IL2CPP->Emscripten->WASM.”
neutral · production · reitzensteinm · 2019-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“through this I learned Lua, Love2D and a little Unity.”
neutral · personal · dave7 · 2018-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Unity so the app code is C#”
neutral · personal · fnayr · 2017-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it since Unity and Gnome 3.”
neutral · personal · pmontra · 2017-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Unity as our main scene editor and exporter.”
neutral · production · franck · 2017-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“then with c# (Unity 3d) and java.”
neutral · production · __--__ · 2012-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use dynamic compilation tricks not available in the mobile build targets till we do workarounds or modify Unity's source code.”
neutral · production · lxpk · 2012-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Unity 2d as the graphics card in this three year old desktop is blacklisted so I can't use compiz”
neutral · personal · keithpeter · 2011-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Unity-window-decorator shares over half of its code with others.”
neutral · personal · old-gregg · 2011-05-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?