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by grandmaster789 3913 days ago
About a year ago I took a look at rust, but I didn't particularily like it. It enforces a single approach to programming stuff (which sounds an awful lot like the golden hammer antipattern) and lacked essential tools - notably an IDE, an actual debugger and profiling tools.

Also, for gamedev you'd pretty much need either directX or openGL bindings. And proper Windows support. I'm not sure where Rust stands on any of these things lately.
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kibwen 3913 days ago
1. IDEs: Mozilla is investing into IDE support for Rust in the coming year, with the goal to have great support for two cross-platform IDEs.

2. Debugger: define "actual debugger", because Rust works great with gdb and lldb and, as far as I know, always has.

3. Profiling tools: the same tools you'd use for C/C++: perf, instruments, callgrind, cachegrind, gperftools, etc.

4. OpenGL bindings: among others, there's Glium (https://github.com/tomaka/glium), which has made a Rust convert of many a graphics programmer.

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