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I have nothing against it, and it being a single person project.

But the fact remains, it's far behind Unity, Unreal and Godot.

You’re the one comparing it to Unity, Unreal and Godot. Everyone else is talking about game engines on Rust and how cool it is that this person built it.

You need to look at this as result/time. Godot has been around for six years, the others for much longer. This has been around for a year and again, it's a one person project. What do you expect?

Well, I'm talking from the point of view of a user. Why would I choose this engine over Godot, Unity, Unreal? Just because it's a single-person project?

Who asked you to choose this engine over Godot, Unity or Unreal? And why would others make a choice for you? Such a choice would only be up to you based on your own requirements, nobody else can make that choice.

Also this post is really about showing off an engine made in Rust, a "hack" so to speak. You are in Hacker News where people post (usually technical) things that others might find interesting - but not necessarily useful. Consider we get posts about people writing software for retro computers, just for the fun of it.

I don't know what to tell you. Don't? Why did people care about Godot in 2015 when Unity was around? For the same reason.

With enough time and resources, I wonder if we'll one day see a Rust game engine that can outperform these projects.

Maybe, but you can already use Rust with Godot.

Not the same.

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