Hi #rustlang#gamedev! I ran a quick survey last week examining the state of Rust Gamedev in 2024. There were 410 responses in five days: thanks a ton for all of your replies!
Most interesting bits to me were that 70% of respondents use Bevy, people seem generally happy with Rust, and that about 20% of respondents have commercial aspirations. Everyone hates compile times, wants engine features and tools for artists: useful to confirm but not news!
If you're inclined, feel free to do more thoughtful analysis on it and make pretty graphs ;) If you do, let me know and I'll promote it. This was a casual weekend project: no ggplot2 or regressions today!
@alice_i_cecile I see lots of people advocating for hot reloading of code in the comments. Definitely agree on that one, and I'm happy to confirm people actually care about this!
But honestly I'm not sure what it would take for #rustlang to get this and there doesn't seem to be generalized interest in taking those steps on the compiler side...
@alice_i_cecile I think what's most interesting is going through the free-comment field at the end - lots of common rust bugbears there ("orphan rule", "tiny stdlib/cargo dependency explosion", "stabilise SIMD/variadic generics/other feature that's been waiting to stabilise for a million years") that aren't gamedev specific.
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