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by meheleventyone 3107 days ago
Rust is definitely being looked at. The reason there are no big projects is that it’s still so new. For example the ability to write custom allocator is still going through the RFC process last I looked. Further it takes many man years of effort to write a AAA level game engine so there is quite a lot of inertia preventing moving to something new. We’re at the phase where people are experimenting within a relatively immature ecosystem. We’re probably a year or two away from a big project using Rust for part of their development process and at least four or five from a large project written from scratch. There are quite a few hobbiest and open source game projects though.
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Awesome, it’ll be a good for there to be a commercial game project out there written in Rust when this gets released.