piston

For someone with better first hand experience, how does this compare to other Rust game engines [1] [2] [3]? Is Bevy flexible enough to let you drop down into raw OpenGL? I'm writing code that does a mix of point cloud rendering and traditional asset rendering (I'm new to all of this), and I'm wondering if I should adopt an engine instead of rolling everything myself with a mix of OpenGL, matrix math, and Imgui. I'm trying to do due diligence, but I'm too new to games and 3D to know what to look for. [1] https://github.com/amethyst/amethyst [2] https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/piston [3] https://arewegameyet.rs/ecosystem/engines/

Consider Piston. Not able to compete with Unreal and Cry yet but it's a WIP. [1] http://www.piston.rs/ [2] https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/piston

I can see this being useful in combination with Piston[1] to achieve scripting for game engines, in the same way Lua is normally used. Rust as a core for a game engine seems like a really great idea, considering the speed and safety benefits it provides. [1] https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/piston

Yeah, Python works too, though Go is great at concurrency in a way Python isn't (we were spawning loads of goroutines for tests without any issue, for example, and channels are well supported) so it fits better. I too am a Python fan for scripting though :) > Rust interests me because it is in the same range as most languages for most things but is a LOT better at a very few things. Me too, for similar reasons. It's like C++, but without all the stuff I didn't like about C++ :) > I'm waiting to hear somebody use Rust in a video game engine. http://github.com/PistonDevelopers/piston