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The Language That Never Was

blog.celes42.com
31 points·by darthdeus·letztes Jahr·1 comments

Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

loglog.games
1,484 points·by darthdeus·vor 2 Jahren·972 comments

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·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Author here, sorry about that, I just deployed a fix, should be readable now. If it's not, here's the first few points

- Once you get good at Rust all of these problems will go away - Rust being great at big refactorings solves a largely self-inflicted issues with the borrow checker - Indirection only solves some problems, and always at the cost of dev ergonomics - ECS solves the wrong kind problem - Generalized systems don't lead to fun gameplay - Making a fun & interesting games is about rapid prototyping and iteration, Rust's values are everything but that - Procedural macros are not even "we have reflection at home" - ...

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