Piston, a prototype video game engine written in Rust

https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/piston-workspace/releases/tag/0.1

by kibwen • 12 years ago

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kibwen• 12 years ago

Despite being in such an immature state, Rust has an encouragingly large community of game development enthusiasts (107 users in the #rust-gamedev IRC channel as we speak). I'm very excited to see engines like this emerge from community efforts!

Arelius8• 12 years ago

To be fair, Rust may be the first modern language seemingly designed around the same set of problems that we encounter in Game Development. I'm actually pretty surprised that it's as little known in GameDev as it is. That is perhaps due to it's immaturity.

wyager• 12 years ago

Well, it's designed to facilitate a systems language with a powerful type system, but it makes sense that there are some shared concerns with game development.

teamonkey2• 12 years ago

Genuinely curious: what makes it especially appropriate for gamedev?

niuzeta• 12 years ago

which server? I can't find one in freenode

someone13• 12 years ago

irc.mozilla.org

mitchmindtree• 12 years ago

Absolutely love this rusty community. It's refreshing being surrounded by so many people consistently passionate about the language and its potential. Really looking forward to what this turns into!

_random_2• 12 years ago

I did not know that Rust had C#-style attributes (annotations)! Will they allow creating custom ones and reflecting on them at runtime?

pcwalton4• 12 years ago

Like type information, attributes are generally boiled away during the build in order to save space in the executable. So you can't reflect on them at runtime.

However, you can make custom attributes expand to arbitrary generated code via the macro system, allowing something similar. This is how we do fast JSON serialization, for instance: the #[deriving(Encodable)] attribute expands to optimized, type-specialized code at compile time, avoiding costly reflection at runtime. (Note that this is an experimental feature, so it may change post 1.0.)

_random_2• 12 years ago

Reflection is not possible in Rust?

erickt• 12 years ago

If anyone is interested in a meetup about Rust's growing gaming infrastructure, we are having a meetup on 6/26 (http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Bay-Area/events/171111672/) and a hackathon on 6/28 (http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Bay-Area/events/183377112/). If you can't make it in person, we will be streaming the meetup over https://air.mozilla.org, where you can watch it live.

Piston, a prototype video game engine written in Rust

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