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I haven't worked in the games industry so please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't game development culture one of rushing crude hacks out the door at the last minute? Rust seems like a poor 'culture fit' in this regard.
How would Rust prevent "rushing crude hacks out the door at the last minute"?
The future of Game Development is about democratization of tools. With tools like Unity, GameMaker, and RPG maker it has become easier and easier for anyone to make a game. While Rust might be a good foundation for some performance critical code, I'd hardly say it's the "Future of Game Development". Already, games use tools like Blueprints in Unreal to make games with limited to no coding experience, and I expect tho…
In some sense blueprints are necessary because using CPP sucks. I can imagine that instead of Blueprints, Rust based engines will use some DSLs.
The GHC RTS is akin to the Lua layer and handles all the high-level logic. For storage and compute-intensive things, we can drop to lower-level primitives for performance and then easily hook into them in our scripting layer. I wouldn't be surprised if fleshing out this domain hints at future useful GHC extensions as well.
I like Rust a lot, but I honestly think the ability to do highly-abstract programming is worth having to deal with a non-literal compilation pipeline. For gamedev at least.
I honestly think it will be astounding what scale of game a single developer will be able to build in Haskell in 3-5 years once all the pioneering is out of the way. Programming a game the size Blasphemous could easily be managed by a single Haskeller I'm pretty sure - leaving resources to focus on art, sound, and storytelling. And that's an easy call - it'll be fun to see just how big and complicated of game logic we can make cheap thanks to good abstractions.
I should be able to complete the sentence, "Rust is the future of game development because...," but I can't in any meaningful way.
Here are the highlights of the article, instead:
Rust is the future of game development because Rust has the performance of C++ with the convenience of C#.
Rust is the future of game development because Rust has ownership based memory.
Rust is the future of game development because Rust is popular. (The article doesn't say this explicitly, but implies it is.)
Rust is the future of game development because Rust is still an immature language. (This doesn't actually sell the point, and I'm not sure why the author bothers talking about this.)
What's weird, too, is that the article talks about how hard networking is, but _cart has specifically said in the past, "Yup! High level and low level networking is definitely on our radar, but it also isn't our immediate priority."
It may come as a surprise, but you basically have to bake networking into the engine. It's not easy as an afterthought. Rust doesn't help with this. In fact, multiplayer and all its challenges have nothing to do with Rust.
We had modern client-side prediction roughly 20 years ago, and people still don't take multiplayer seriously.
The future of Game Development is about democratization of tools. With tools like Unity, GameMaker, and RPG maker it has become easier and easier for anyone to make a game. While Rust might be a good foundation for some performance critical code, I'd hardly say it's the "Future of Game Development". Already, games use tools like Blueprints in Unreal to make games with limited to no coding experience, and I expect tho…
Not directly relevant, but the use of the phrase “democratization” to describe a process that has nothing whatsoever to do with democracy (“anarchization”?) has become a pet peeve of mine.
That said, I do feel most of the examples are not that. The old shareware scene was much closer to the spirit. Now that we are pushing winners only, feels more like corporate control than it does people control. :(
I haven't worked in the games industry so please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't game development culture one of rushing crude hacks out the door at the last minute? Rust seems like a poor 'culture fit' in this regard.
>Rust seems like a poor 'culture fit' in this regard. How would Rust prevent "rushing crude hacks out the door at the last minute"?
Rust builds slower than C++.
The future of Game Development is about democratization of tools. With tools like Unity, GameMaker, and RPG maker it has become easier and easier for anyone to make a game. While Rust might be a good foundation for some performance critical code, I'd hardly say it's the "Future of Game Development". Already, games use tools like Blueprints in Unreal to make games with limited to no coding experience, and I expect tho…
Not directly relevant, but the use of the phrase “democratization” to describe a process that has nothing whatsoever to do with democracy (“anarchization”?) has become a pet peeve of mine.
Is this not just ARC?