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heromal | 11 months ago

> Rust is shaping up to be a major game programming language.

No it's not

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ecshafer|11 months ago

You were downvoted but I think youre right. So many games are made in C++, C#, Lua, GML, Haxe, even Swift, Java and Javascript if you include mobile and web games. In terms of raw number of games, Rust isn’t in the top 10 yearly.

pjmlp|11 months ago

Also to note, games industry is very conservative, it took a few decades for those languages to be adopted, and in many cases a push from platform owner was also required.

heromal|11 months ago

My comment didn't add much in the way of discussion, so it probably should have been downvoted. But like you said, Rust isn't making a dent so far, and it'll take much more than memory safety to convince the industry to switch to e.g. Bevy rather than the big 2.