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I love Rust, but this lines up with my experience roughly. Especially the rapid iteration. Tried things out with Bevy, but I went back to Godot. There are so many QoL things which would make Rust better for gamedev without revamping the language. Just a mode to automatically coerce between numeric types would make Rust so much more ergonomic for gamedev. But that's a really hard sell (and might be harder to implement…
I did the same for my project and moved to Go from Rust. My iteration is much faster, but the code a bit more brittle, esp. for concurrency. Tests have become more important. Still, given the nature of what my project is (APIs and basic financial stuff), I think it was the right choice. I still plan to write about 5% of the project in Rust and call it from Go, if required, as there is a piece of code that simply cann…
Is calling Rust from Go fast? Last time I checked the interface between C and Go is very slow
Love to have this comparison analysis. Huge LOC difference between Rust and C# (64k -> 17k!!!) though I am sure that is mostly access to additional external libraries that did things they wrote by hand in Rust.
C# is a very highly underrated (and oft misunderstood) language that has become more terse as it has aged -- in a very good way. C#'s terseness has not come at the cost of its legibility and in fact, I feel like enhances it in many cases. > The maturity and vast amount of stable historical data for C# and the Unity API mean that tools like Gemini consistently provide highly relevant guidance. This is also a highly un…
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Unfortunately, it is a failing of many projects in the Rust sphere that they spend quite a lot longer in 0.x than other projects. Rust language and library features themselves often spend years in nightly before making it to a release build. You can also always go from 1.0 to 2.0 if you want to make breaking changes.
> Unfortunately, it is a failing of many projects in the Rust sphere that they spend quite a lot longer in 0.x than other projects Yes. Because it makes a promise about backwards compatibility. > Rust language and library features themselves often spend years in nightly before making it to a release build. So did Java's. And I Rust probably has a fraction of its budget. In defense of long nightly feature more than on…
If you choose to support 1.0 sure. But you don't have to. Overall I find that the Rust community is way too leery of going to 1.0. It doesn't have to be as big a burden as they make it out to be, that is something that comes down to how you handle it.
here's a web demo
Rust is not good for video game gameplay logic. The ownership model of Rust can not represent the vast majority of allocations. I love Rust. It’s not for shipping video games. No Tiny Glade doesn’t count. Edit: don’t know why you’re downvoting. I love Rust. I use it at my job and look for ways to use it more. I’ve also shipped a lot of games. And if you look at Steam there are simply zero Rust made games in the top 2…
Isn't Veloren doing pretty good?
No offense to the project. It’s cool and I’m glad it exists. But if you were to plot the top 2000 games on Steam by time played there are, I believe, precisely zero written in Rust.
Love to have this comparison analysis. Huge LOC difference between Rust and C# (64k -> 17k!!!) though I am sure that is mostly access to additional external libraries that did things they wrote by hand in Rust.
C# is a very highly underrated (and oft misunderstood) language that has become more terse as it has aged -- in a very good way. C#'s terseness has not come at the cost of its legibility and in fact, I feel like enhances it in many cases. > The maturity and vast amount of stable historical data for C# and the Unity API mean that tools like Gemini consistently provide highly relevant guidance. This is also a highly un…
C# and .net are one of the most mature platform for development of all kind. It's just that online, it carries some sort of anti Microsoft stigma...
But a lot of AA or indie games are written in C# and they do fine. It's not just C++ or Rust in that industry.
People tend to be influenced by opinions online but often the real world is completely different. Been using C# for a decade now and it's one of the most productive language I have ever used, easy to set up, powerful toolchains... and yes a lot of closed source libs in the .net ecosystem but the open source community is large too by now.
I wonder why Godot wasn't picked. Did I miss the points in the article?
This seems like the right call. When it comes to projects like these, efficiency is almost everything. Speaking about my own experiences, when I hit a snag in productivity in a project like this, it's almost always a death-knell. I too have a hobby-level interest in Rust, but doing things in Rust is, in my experience, almost always just harder. I mean no slight to the language, but this has universally been my experi…