The Community Has Beaten Epic At Porting The Unreal Editor To Linux

The community of coders has beaten Epic Games at the porting game and has ported the Unreal Editor to Linux already. This is one step closer towards building Unreal Engine 4 games on Linux.


 

Holy cow! RT @RCL: How community beat us to the UE4 Linux editor :) http://t.co/N1gP4HExAq #unrealengine #unrealdev

— Unreal Engine (@UnrealEngine) May 9, 2014

It's not clear how far along it is, but progress is progress and gives Epic themselves a massive head-start.

@angelmixu @RCL It's still early but progress is happening quickly.

— Unreal Engine (@UnrealEngine) May 10, 2014

Probably not even close to being production ready, but this is fantastic news and will hopefully prove to Epic how good an idea it was to give subscribers code access!

This is what happens when code is open guys, people can help. While it's not FOSS it's better that it's open to subscribers than not open at all. Power to the community!

I cannot wait to see what else happens and how long it takes for the Linux editor to become stable.