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I was under the impression that Amethyst was not a competitor.

There was a post stating Amethyst was basically in need of a re-architecture that could never be resourced and because Bevy was already based on that “new” architecture it was easier to switch all development effort over.

But maybe this thread is out of date.

https://community.amethyst.rs/t/bevy-engine-addressing-the-e...

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Certainly that rewrite was huge, and it is currently "mostly complete", but Bevy launching when it did helped stifle a lot of the momentum. However, it was picked back up again in November and is now mostly complete: https://github.com/amethyst/amethyst/issues/2517

From outside at this point, the rewrite looks like a mistake , given the lost momentum and the current state of the project, but maybe when they finally get it out it'll turn out differently in 6 months.

This may come off as snarky, but as long as I've been following Rust and Amethyst the latter seems to always be in some kind of "not quite there yet but it will be after the next rewrite/rearchitecture". Same goes for Conrod, its GUI library.

It seemed like an inevitability that some other library would come along that would move forward a bit quicker.

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