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I am Sebastian Schöner, and you are most likely here because you enjoy programming as well.

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• What I learned from improving Unity's Mono codegen, part 2

  Posted on April 13, 2026

  My current sidequest is to improve the codegen for Unity games (and the editor) running on Mono. This post is a continuation of last week’s post about this journey. [Read More]

• What I learned from improving Unity's Mono codegen, part 1

  Posted on April 7, 2026

  My current sidequest is to improve the codegen for Unity games (and the editor) running on Mono. This post and the next two are about this process and what I learned. [Read More]

• Better codegen for Unity games on Mono

  Posted on March 31, 2026

  tl;dr: I am tinkering with improved codegen for Mono to get better performance in the Unity Editor and in Unity games that ship with Mono as their runtime. Not done yet, but please do get in touch if your studio is interested in this (mail@s-schoener.com). [Read More]

• I miss header files

  Posted on March 27, 2026

  I am currently on a side quest to write some Zig code, or more specifically: take some C++ code that is written in a I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-C style and turn it into Zig. [Read More]

• It has never been about the typing

  Posted on March 18, 2026

  My friend Stefan Reinalter is asking: I find this extremely worrying, with many of people I respect saying things like “I no longer write code” or “let LLMs do it”. Why did you start programming? Was it never the journey for you, but only the goal? I genuinely want to... [Read More]

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