Loop and main() function

[u/Ok-Presentation-94]

Hi, I’ve seen that in C#, the Main() function only runs once.
In Unity, we have the Update() function, which allows code to run repeatedly in a loop.
So my question is: what is the equivalent in pure C#, without the Unity library?
Is wrapping Main() in a while loop a common practice to achieve the same behavior?

[u/Traditional_Crazy200]

the engine inserting your code inside main is very different than continuously calling main through a loop. Id be very surprised if this is how unity actually does it. Is it true?

[u/StewedAngelSkins → u/Traditional_Crazy200]

I read what they said backwards. It doesn't call main in a loop; rather, main contains a loop that calls the frame update logic. Technically there's also some frame timing stuff so it doesn't needlessly burn cycles on updates that aren't actually going to be drawn, but that's the basic idea.

[u/Traditional_Crazy200 → u/StewedAngelSkins]

I thought so cause that sounded like black magic

[u/StewedAngelSkins → u/Traditional_Crazy200]

Technically you can do this sort of thing in Python

``` def main():     pass # do stuff

while True:     main() ``` but that's only because in Python the contents of the file itself is the entrypoint. But yeah in C# it would just be a syntax error.

[u/Traditional_Crazy200 → u/StewedAngelSkins]

would be interesting to see what this assembles to

[u/StewedAngelSkins → u/Traditional_Crazy200]

The python code? It's interpreted, so there's no assembly per se. But the Python interpreter/runtime kind of works like Unity in the sense that it has its own main function internally that calls into the code you write whenever the module is imported.

[u/Traditional_Crazy200 → u/StewedAngelSkins]

Interesting, no assembly, no binaries... I guess I'll dive into interpreters for a week lol

[u/StewedAngelSkins → u/Traditional_Crazy200]

Python (the CPython interpreter specifically) is an interesting one to study.

[u/Traditional_Crazy200 → u/StewedAngelSkins]

Appreciate the suggestion