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Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years (loglog.games)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This was a really good summary of what Rust feels like in my opinion. I'm still a beginner myself but I recognize what this article is saying very much.

The hacker news comments are as usual very good too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm still in my honeymoon-ignoring-footguns phase with go, but am well aware I'm on the same path. I do really love how quick is it to generate a static binary that will always work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, that is really nice, and something fantastic about Go.

That said, I found that I care about that a lot less now than I used to. With everything running through CI, having a build take a few minutes instead of a few seconds isn't really a big deal anymore. And for personal things where I used to build small Go binaries, I just use Python, mostly because it's easier to drop into a REPL than to iterate with Go.

I like Go in theory, and I hope they fix a lot of the issues I have with it. But given that Go 2 isn't happening, maybe it won't. Or maybe they'll do the Rust editions thing (seems to be the case in that article) so they can fix fundamental issues. IDK. But I'm guessing some of the things I want aren't happening, like:

map[K]V should be concurrency-safe, or at least have a safe counterpart w/o needing an import
destructors, or something like Rust's Drop trait
interface{}(T(nil)) == nil - or better yet, no nil at all
slices shouldn't be able to write beyond their bounds (example here)

Those are pretty fundamental to how Go works, though maybe the last one could be fixed, but it has been there since 1.0 and people have complained since 1.0...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I haven't really written any Go but from trying to debug some issues in Go software and looking at the source code it seems to be the kind of garbage language that is write-only and likely most major projects written in it will take a full rewrite if you want to overhaul it for a new major version (as in the kind of major version where the code base changes significantly, not the kind where you just broke some minor API).