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Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
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So... dev blames skill issues on language? Classic.
EDIT: For the record, I'm not saying the author is bad at Rust. I'm saying they're bad at making games and balancing tradeoffs. They keep saying that they don't like rust because they just want to worry about making a game, not fighting the language. And yet, they seem to continually make decisions that favor performance over ergonomics. Then they whine about how the Rust community is supposedly pressuring them to make bad decisions.
Ha they literally said about 5 times in this page that people often say "it's just a skill issue"... and here you are.
I love Rust but the author's points are 100% valid.
OP is talking about a different kind of skill issue than the article. The article is about skill issues in writing Rust code, while OP is about skill issues in choosing the right technology for the right task.
Not picking Rust for code that has to be prototyped quickly and iterated a lot is kinda obvious. The solution would be to use Rust for the core engine where the requirements are clear and something else (lua? Python?) for the gameplay code. Even the engine the author wants to switch to does the same with with the divide between C++ and C#.