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Top 18 Rust Scripting Projects
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mlua
High level Lua 5.4/5.3/5.2/5.1 (including LuaJIT) and Roblox Luau bindings to Rust with async/await support (by mlua-rs)
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scriptisto
A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write scripts in compiled languages.
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vonuvoli-scheme
vonuvoli Scheme -- an R7RS interpreter written in Rust focused on systems programming and scripting (i.e. processes, file-system, etc.) with performance and safety in mind
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watchbind
A cli menu for periodically watching a program's output and executing commands on its lines through keybindings
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Project mention: Gluon is a static, type inferred and embeddabble language written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-01
Project mention: 3 years of fulltime Rust game development, and why we're leaving Rust behind | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-26
Project mention: LuaX – Lua interpreter, REPL and useful packages | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-26If you want it to interact well with a couple of really popular languages there's this:
https://github.com/mlua-rs/mlua
Rust and through Deno, JavaScirpt.
Project mention: Scriptisto: "Shebang interpreter" that enables writing scripts in compiled langs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-06
Project mention: 3 years of fulltime Rust game development, and why we're leaving Rust behind | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-26As someone who's become a core contributor to Bevy lately, while also doing contract work in Unity on the side, I obviously disagree with the idea that Rust isn't up to the task of game dev. The grass isn't greener on the Unity side, with a mountain of technical debt holding the engine back. (They're still using Boehm GC in 2024!) Bevy is a breath of fresh air just because it's relatively new and free of legacy. Using Rust instead of C++ is just one part of that. Bevy has a more modern design throughout: for instance, it has a relatively straightforward path to GPU-driven rendering in an integrated system, without having to deal with three incompatible render pipelines (BiRP, HDRP, URP).
What I find more interesting is the parts of the article that boil down to "Rust isn't the best language for rapid development and iteration speed". And that may well be true! I've long thought that the future of Bevy is an integrated Lua scripting layer [1]. You don't even need to get into arguments about the suitability of the borrow checker: it's clear that artists and designers aren't going to be learning Rust anytime soon. I'd like to see a world in which Rust is there for the low-to-mid-level parts that need performance and reliability, and Lua is there for the high-level logic that needs fast iteration, and it's all a nicely integrated whole.
Long-term, I think this world would actually put Bevy in a better place than the existing engines. Unity forces you into C# for basically everything, which is both too low-level for non-programmers to use and too high-level for performance-critical code (unless you have a source license, which no indie developer has). Unreal requires C++, which is even more difficult than Rust (IMO), or Blueprints, which as a visual programming language is way too high-level for anything but the simplest logic. Godot favors GDScript, which is idiosyncratic for questionable gain. I think Rust and Lua (or something similar) would put Bevy in a Goldilocks spot of having two languages that cover all the low-, mid-, and high-level needs well.
As for the other parts of the article, I disagree with the ECS criticism; ECS has some downsides, but the upsides outweigh the downsides in my view. I do agree that Bevy not having an official editor is an ongoing problem that desperately needs fixing. Personally, I would have prioritized the editor way higher earlier in Bevy's development. There is space_editor [2] now, which is something.
[1]: https://github.com/makspll/bevy_mod_scripting
[2]: https://github.com/rewin123/space_editor
Project mention: Lune: A standalone asynchronous, Luau runtime built with Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-07
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Scripting projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | gluon | 3,139 |
| 2 | mun | 1,789 |
| 3 | rune | 1,608 |
| 4 | mlua | 1,407 |
| 5 | scriptisto | 868 |
| 6 | Ketos | 746 |
| 7 | duckscript | 496 |
| 8 | bevy_mod_scripting | 361 |
| 9 | lune | 281 |
| 10 | atom | 260 |
| 11 | rant | 189 |
| 12 | malluscript | 164 |
| 13 | vonuvoli-scheme | 150 |
| 14 | run_script | 118 |
| 15 | hacks | 57 |
| 16 | watchbind | 19 |
| 17 | qali | 18 |
| 18 | stainless_script | 5 |
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