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by LarsDu88 1009 days ago
This is why I feel an engine like Bevy will one day beat them all. ECS, rust, memory safety, thread safety.

It just needs an editor (or even a gameplan for what an editor would look like), animation, halfway decent rendering pipeline... it's a very long way from production ready.

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Agree here. I long for an open source combat flight sim, and Bevy, with ECS, rust, wasm capabilities, thread safety, etc sounds quite apt.
I'm making a VR combat flight sim (of sorts) https://roguestargun.com

I went into it thinking I needed a bunch of ECS multithreading to make it run on an Oculus Quest 2, but honestly, it's completely unnecessary. Vanilla essentially single threaded Unity C# with careful asset optimization, and I get get ~60+ rigidbody running on a mobile chip at 72 fps. I haven't been able to survive a dogfight against more than 12 enemy ai fighters

Tim Sweeney was right, ECS for optimization purposes is overkill for most games and is best relegated to fancy particle systems (which is the route Unreal went)