Xelmish vs Nu

Xelmish

XNA + Elmish - 2D game development framework with F# (by ChrisPritchard)

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Repository hosting the open-source Nu Game Engine and related projects. (by bryanedds)

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Xelmish		Nu
	Project
2	Mentions	4
164	Stars	1,024
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	10.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
F#	Language	F#
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Xelmish

Posts with mentions or reviews of Xelmish. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-20.

Suggestions for a functional language for videogames
6 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 20 Apr 2021

try F# in https://github.com/ChrisPritchard/Xelmish which is built on top of monogame.
What the F#
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2021

Love the idea behind the game engine for Xelmish https://github.com/ChrisPritchard/Xelmish
Its made on top of monogame and should have a battle tested core. But the lack of knowledge/adoption for Xelmish is disappointing.

Nu

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-27.

Nu Game Engine written in F#
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2023
Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Aug 2021
How is the state of F# with Unity?
2 projects | /r/fsharp | 15 Jun 2021

Not Unity, but Nu is an F#-first game engine you might look into.
Suggestions for a functional language for videogames
6 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 20 Apr 2021

Take a look at Nu. I haven't used it, but it seemed pretty heavily inspired by Elm when I was reading about it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Xelmish and Nu you can also consider the following projects:

cakelisp - Metaprogrammable, hot-reloadable, no-GC language for high perf programs (especially games), with seamless C/C++ interop

num-bigint - Big integer types for Rust

XNAGameStudio - The Education library from the Xbox Live Indie games repository, valuable for MonoGame Developers for advanced samples

accesskit - UI accessibility infrastructure across platforms and programming languages

Elmish.WPF - Static WPF views for elmish programs

lobster - The Lobster Programming Language

corert - This repo contains CoreRT, an experimental .NET Core runtime optimized for AOT (ahead of time compilation) scenarios, with the accompanying compiler toolchain.

iced - Blazing fast and correct x86/x64 disassembler, assembler, decoder, encoder for Rust, .NET, Java, Python, Lua

druid - A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.

elmish - Elm-like abstractions for F# apps

FunctionalProgrammingInGames - Functional Programming in Games Resources