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by pjmlp 1270 days ago
Mozilla gave up on Firefox with lots of completly useless activities burning their bank accounts, Rust suffered by association.

Here, Embark new game engine in Rust hasn't gone anywhere,

https://medium.com/embarkstudios/embarks-creative-playground...

It even got a new release quite recently,

"we here at Embark been using this for over a year in production now for our Creative Playground & custom Rust engine that uses Vulkan, and hope it can be of use for more developers as we continue to build it out."

-- https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/zrskiq/rustgpu_v04_re...

Yes they are also using Unreal for other titles, plenty of studios have more than one engine.
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Kukumber 1270 days ago
They talk about using Rust for over 5 years, and yet they delivered nothing, and switched to using Unreal for their commercial games and upcoming games (2 new titles already announced with Unreal)

Lot of buzz for nothing, just like with Firefox

Rust doesn't seem capable enough for that kind of projects

Other comments mentions pieces of the Android Runtime being written in Rust, and that seems all Rust is able to provide, by-proxy uses

Still waiting for something like Kubernetes for Rust to really push the industry forward, so far, no bueno

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pjmlp 1270 days ago
They haven't delivered nothing?!?

https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-ecosystem

Running containers on AWS?

https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/aws-firecracker/

What have you delivered in your top XVYZ language?

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Kukumber 1270 days ago
That's not because your project is on github that you have delivered something, it's still at the WIP/experimental phase, and its been like that for years

I don't have a top language, and to be honest i am a bit sad about the state of programming languages these days, it's all over the place and nobody seems to hate bloatware, so we get slow stuff that compiles slow all over the place

And i don't believe in "one language to rule them all" moto

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-worked-with-vs...

Not a reference, but it gives an idea about the people interested in Rust, they are mostly the web people, which says a lot about the lack of dynamics

> Running containers on AWS?

1 or 2 projects out of 1000s in a big company doesn't sound interesting

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