Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
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Re: Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
#2It'd be very interesting to read real-world experiences of experienced game programmers with the language itself; all the discussions around the net are purely academic.
Long ago I've read on Reddit a programmer posted his detailed experience of the problems they've found on a non-trivial game, but I can't find it. I also wonder if anything changed.
Re: Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
#3It'd be very interesting to read real-world experiences of experienced game programmers with the language itself; all the discussions around the net are purely academic. Long ago I've read on Reddit a programmer posted his detailed experience of the problems they've found on a non-trivial game, but I can't find it. I also wonder if anything changed.
Embark Studio has a great blog post about this.
Inside Rust at Embark: https://medium.com/embarkstudios/inside-rust-at-embark-b82c0...
Re: Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
#4It'd be very interesting to read real-world experiences of experienced game programmers with the language itself; all the discussions around the net are purely academic. Long ago I've read on Reddit a programmer posted his detailed experience of the problems they've found on a non-trivial game, but I can't find it. I also wonder if anything changed.
I just recently came across these two videos.
Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M
Counter-rant from Jonathan Blow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk
Re: Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
#5It'd be very interesting to read real-world experiences of experienced game programmers with the language itself; all the discussions around the net are purely academic. Long ago I've read on Reddit a programmer posted his detailed experience of the problems they've found on a non-trivial game, but I can't find it. I also wonder if anything changed.
You might be thinking of Chucklefish who’ve done some talks and write ups about using Rust for their projects. IIRC they’ve since stopped. Catherine West their TD did a talk a few years ago.
Also: https://prev.rust-lang.org/pdfs/Rust-Chucklefish-Whitepaper....
Re: Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
#6Some of the libraries seem stale. libovr is "Last Updated almost 5 years ago" so I guess it's abandoned?
Maybe the last updated status could be brought to the arewegameyet page?
Re: Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
#7I assume most game development (or, at least, game engine development) is still in C++? How easy would it be to start moving parts of it to Rust?
For example, if I were to write a library (e.g. a physics engine) in Rust, how easy is it for game developers to incorporate it into their C++ games? Would they need to set up a separate Rust toolchain alongside their existing C++ one? It seems it would be much harder to for them to include my library compared to a competing one that’s written in C++ - especially if the competing library is available as a single header file.
Re: Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
#8It'd be very interesting to read real-world experiences of experienced game programmers with the language itself; all the discussions around the net are purely academic. Long ago I've read on Reddit a programmer posted his detailed experience of the problems they've found on a non-trivial game, but I can't find it. I also wonder if anything changed.
I just recently came across these two videos. Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M Counter-rant from Jonathan Blow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk
Idk who that guy is in the counter-rant portion, but if he can make a 1-hour long video against a language, why doesn't he make his own language instead or write his own game engine in his own language or something like that? I highly doubt he would get sub 1-second compile times, like he claims at 1:03:52.
Talk is cheap, SAD!
Re: Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
#9I assume most game development (or, at least, game engine development) is still in C++? How easy would it be to start moving parts of it to Rust? For example, if I were to write a library (e.g. a physics engine) in Rust, how easy is it for game developers to incorporate it into their C++ games? Would they need to set up a separate Rust toolchain alongside their existing C++ one? It seems it would be much harder to fo…
The rise of Unity (C#) and Godot (GDScript or C#) would make me think that most game code is starting to move away from raw C++ — but of course the core engine code is still C++ indeed.
Re: Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
#10I assume most game development (or, at least, game engine development) is still in C++? How easy would it be to start moving parts of it to Rust? For example, if I were to write a library (e.g. a physics engine) in Rust, how easy is it for game developers to incorporate it into their C++ games? Would they need to set up a separate Rust toolchain alongside their existing C++ one? It seems it would be much harder to fo…
There's something called a foreign function interface that allows rust to access compiled c++ or c primitives.