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Game developers should start using more Rust.

by shmerl 8y ago

rafaelvasco 8y ago
Yeah it's an awesome language. Has its downsides (language enforced memory micromanagement is a good thing but can get annoying sometimes.) but it's one of the best we have now. For now i'll stay with my beloved C#.
- satsuma 8y ago
  +1 for csharp, got to use it in an introductory unity class and fell in love with it.
- shmerl 8y ago
  C# doesn't sound like a good option for games development though (except may be for scripting used in various engines). It's now dominated by C++ for a good reason, since it requires tight performance control. So Rust is a valid candidate for fixing C++ issues. C# - not really.
uglycoyote 8y ago
For console development (Sony, Nintendo, XBox), anything but C++ has never seemed like an option because all of the development tools and libraries provided for working on those consoles are C++ centric. But I'm curious if there are any console development companies that are successfully using Rust or other languages which perhaps can link with C++ libraries? We use C# in our studio for tools, and are able to link it with our game C++ so that we can run some of the game's subsystems within the tools (e.g. animation engine) but shipping the game with C# code is not an option for several reasons, performance being the most important, but also we need to build our game for the console using CLang/LLVM, and I suspect it's not possible to write C# which interfaces with C++ using LLVM, only with Microsoft's compiler.
- steveklabnik 8y ago
  For Rust, Chucklefish has written rust for all the current generation of consoles: https://github.com/rust-lang/prev.rust-lang.org/blob/master/pdfs/Rust-Chucklefish-Whitepaper.pdf https://github.com/rust-lang/prev.rust-lang.org/blob/master/... There are other game companies doing stuff, but we have less details including platform: EA’s SEED division, Ready At Dawn, and Embark (some ex-SEED devs making a new studio where Rust is the primary language.)

Game developers should start using more Rust.

by shmerl 8y ago

Game developers should start using more Rust.

Yeah it's an awesome language. Has its downsides (language enforced memory micromanagement is a good thing but can get annoying sometimes.) but it's one of the best we have now. For now i'll stay with my beloved C#.

satsuma 8y ago
+1 for csharp, got to use it in an introductory unity class and fell in love with it.
shmerl 8y ago
C# doesn't sound like a good option for games development though (except may be for scripting used in various engines). It's now dominated by C++ for a good reason, since it requires tight performance control. So Rust is a valid candidate for fixing C++ issues. C# - not really.

uglycoyote 8y ago

For console development (Sony, Nintendo, XBox), anything but C++ has never seemed like an option because all of the development tools and libraries provided for working on those consoles are C++ centric. But I'm curious if there are any console development companies that are successfully using Rust or other languages which perhaps can link with C++ libraries? We use C# in our studio for tools, and are able to link it with our game C++ so that we can run some of the game's subsystems within the tools (e.g. animation engine) but shipping the game with C# code is not an option for several reasons, performance being the most important, but also we need to build our game for the console using CLang/LLVM, and I suspect it's not possible to write C# which interfaces with C++ using LLVM, only with Microsoft's compiler.

steveklabnik 8y ago
For Rust, Chucklefish has written rust for all the current generation of consoles: https://github.com/rust-lang/prev.rust-lang.org/blob/master/pdfs/Rust-Chucklefish-Whitepaper.pdf https://github.com/rust-lang/prev.rust-lang.org/blob/master/... There are other game companies doing stuff, but we have less details including platform: EA’s SEED division, Ready At Dawn, and Embark (some ex-SEED devs making a new studio where Rust is the primary language.)