Hasnain says:

Interesting set of data around how Rust is as a usable programming language especially in the gamedev ecosystem.

"The language has a higher upfront cognitive load than any other mainstream language. Which means that on an established, bigger project (maybe with a team behind) the productivity is amazing compared to C++! It's much easier to express strong & safe interfaces that make bugs just harder to introduce. It really shines in network code that needs to be 100% safe and resist bad actors! My current game server code has 0 unwraps/panics/expects and so I just know it can't crash... I wish I could have that feeling in C++. C++ on the contrary makes it easy to whip up something which then has a 20% crash rate and tanks perf and takes 2 weeks to hammer into shape, and after those 2 weeks it looks like Rust code anyway."

Posted on 2020-02-14T03:37:26+0000