[galleywest200]

This is excellent news! I have been waiting for Godot (hehe) to release this.

The new Vulkan backend is exciting for 3D projects and I am excited to try to dig into the new 2d tilemapping after work.

As well, gotta love experimental Rust support:

> With Godot 4, we introduce a new system called GDExtension. By design, it takes the best parts of creating GDNative extensions and writing custom engine modules using high performance languages such as C, C++ or Rust.

[danjoredd]

Love that cultured pun

[faisal_ksa]

It might not be relevant to HN. But could you please explain the reference? Why is Godot a joke? I'm familiar with the reference

[MapsSlaps]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot is the pun

[faisal_ksa]

Thank you so much

[plq]

And that's the exact joke I expected to find when I clicked on this post :)

Anyhoo, kudos to the team for shipping. Building a generic game engine for the global audience is a massive undertaking.

[Buttons840]

What do you mean about Rust? I don't see any special Rust support other than GDExtensions which can be utilized by almost any language.

[runevault]

Yeah it is via GDExtension, note most languages do need to build some level of interface to take advantage of it. Rust already has one though I dunno just how clean the 4.0 version is yet (last looked months ago when they openly said it was a work in progress).

[manchmalscott]

An important point: rust bindings for GDExtension are community lead, and not officially supported by the Godot team.