arewefastyet VS veloren

That page averages all the builds across different code bases. It doesn’t specify which version/tag of which code base, nor does it talk about the hardware.

https://arewefastyet.pages.dev/ - This page tracks compile times across some common crates over all supported compiler versions, with different hardware (2, 4, 8, 16 cores). This used to be https://arewefastyet.rs but the domain expired.

For what it's worth, Rust compile times have improved by 33-50% in the last two years, depending on the crate, compiler mode and number of cores - https://arewefastyet.rs. Also, debug builds will get approximately 50% faster when the cranelift backend lands.

You can check incremental compile times on http://arewefastyet.rs. Choose one compile mode (Debug OR Release, preferably Debug), one hardware config (4 cores let's say) and both profile modes (Clean, Incremental).

Compile times in rustc have been steadily improving with time, as shown here - https://arewefastyet.rs.

Every release doesn't make every workload faster, but over a long time horizon, the effect is clear. Rust 1.34 was released in April 2019 and since then many crates have become 33-50% faster to compile, depending on the hardware and the compiler mode (clean/incremental, check/debug/release).

Interestingly, the speedup mentioned in OP won't show up in these charts because that's a change on macOS and these benchmarks were recorded on Linux.

What is expected to be a gamechanger is the release of cranelift in 2021 or 2022. It's an alternate debug backend that promises much faster debug builds.

Thanks for your work on arewefastyet.rs, I was about to post a link to it haha

I implemented something similar. Deserialising a comma separated strings into a struct - example. Hope that helps!

I came to post this as well. All of the models for characters and animals and buildings are created in this. They call it "pre-alpha", but very playable and *very* beautiful.

https://www.veloren.net

I've never used it, but (from what I've seen) is a great tool for modeling Voxels.

Shameless plug: The format (and the tool) had been used with great success in Veloren, an Open Source Voxel MMORPG written in rust (https://www.veloren.net/). The artist team has made great assets for the game and landscapes for the release parties.

Your should check out the project, it is really cool.

(Disclaimer: I'm part of the mod team.)

There are instructions here

Someone from my uni already did it. Here it is

Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust\ (132 comments)

I can't imagine myself being stuck for 10 minutes to see a change happen on screen

Just take a look at a Veloren dev changing a line, then compiling it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2WDBMjkh8&t=976s

Rust is not made for game dev, this project is the proof, your progress will stall at some point because you won't be able to iterate on your game anymore!

That's the curse of Rust

Where are the gamedev that announced using Rust from now on 5 years ago? they still stuck compiling their projects!

What a disaster: https://github.com/veloren/veloren/blob/master/Cargo.lock

7.5k LOC just for dependencies..

Source is here if anyone is curious: https://github.com/veloren/veloren

Veloren is a free 3D RPG inspired by Cube World and made in Rust.