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@bjzaba_ Cool! :D I didn't know game dev was a plausible use case for Rust. How are you finding it so far?

The tricky thing will be dealing with the lack of global state. But I'm sure that's a problem that can be solved.

Arturo

@arturovm

Jan 17, 2013

@bjzaba_ What about Go? I don't know if there are any graphics libs, but I've been using it for a while now and I love it :)

I see go as a higher level language, more like python (but with less overhead). Which definitely has its place.

Arturo

@arturovm

Jan 17, 2013

@bjzaba_ ...But not for games :P Interesting. I'd say it's as low level as C++.

Mandatory GC is a show-stopper in terms of high performance real-time applications.

@bjzaba_

haha, some people might kill you where you stand for stating this

@bjzaba_ (though, granted, for most people it just makes them pull their hair)

But there is GC if you want it. You just have to use the '@' sigil on a type.

@bjzaba_

then how do you free mem ? You just unref it ? How that different from GC behavior ?

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Even C++ is a really amazing language in terms of enabling 'zero-cost abstractions'.

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