bevy-website VS gdnative

https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy-website/issues/1097 Yep, on our wishlist and will be added :)

We'd like to open the floodgates on Bevy Book development asap. This taking so long has largely been my fault ... I've been overly protective of the Bevy Book while also not giving it the attention it deserves. Here is our current plan: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy-website/issues/623#issuec..., which I'd like to execute during the next cycle.

Latest Progress: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy-website/pull/550/files

I do want previews though.

API docs, examples and the revised book: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy-website/pulls?q=is%3Aopen...

Strongly agreed on the need for better introductory material; the existing book is extremely incomplete.

> I don't have this clear. Are 5/6 teams actually building commercial games with Bevy, or they just planning to do it in the future? This is a crucial distinction.

I know of 2 released commercial projects, the CAD team, a few indie devs who have started and 3 or so small studios who are looking to start. There's a little thread in the Discord where I've rounded folks up: [Bevy in production](https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/995713618526...).

We also do some real cleverness around split borrows in order to enable automatic system parallelism. This draft book page goes into more concrete details :)

Can do

I used the unofficial bevy cheatbook a lot to learn the ropes. Everyone on the discord is super friendly and helpful and the official documentation is being updated, you can check out the PRs on the book branch

If you're curious about the ECS side of things, that chapter is now ~approximately complete, and should make an excellent learning resource: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy-website/pull/182

It's a little less standard use, but Godot has been used to build application guis, which could be paired with rust bindings to implement app logic. I can't speak to reproducibility/scalability, but Godot's ui is extremely solid, and I'd probably choose that over Bevy until Bevy's ui progress matures.

Adding onto this, I successfully written a game in Godot using gdnative / gdext. I started with a split approach using gdscript and rust for CPU intensive but found that the API layer was slow at transferring large amounts of data (serialization?). I ended up rewriting it in all rust and it worked like a charm. I was able to target native and web assembly, the web assembly was much slower but worked on the browser.

Check this: https://github.com/tomuxmon/bevy_roguelike if you are still into bevy. Scheduling is a bit bork and I have not found time to port it to latest bevy. But most of the systems should work fine(if used on latest bevy). But again. If you want faster result go with something like Godot. In fact, just go with Godot. It is mature, easy to start, no lock in(free and MIT license), a lot of learning material. Also with Godot you can also use Rust https://godot-rust.github.io/. Ditch Unity (do not have time to explain 😅). Have fun!

Bevy Godot-Rust

> Same for Godot.

While likely true that it's "Unlikely to ever be as supported" as the 4 officially supported languages[0] ("GDScript, C#, and, via its GDExtension technology, C and C++."), Godot's GDExtension technology is specifically intended for use in adding support for other languages.

The most relevant tracking issue for Rust is presumably:

* <https://github.com/godot-rust/gdnative/issues/824>

Which links to:

* <https://github.com/godot-rust/gdextension>

[0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.0/getting_started/step_by_...

...Godot v3.x has Rust support via godot-rust and Godot v4.0 is released as of this month?

I was curious, and looked it up. Nothing built in, but there's an interesting project that works with godot: https://godot-rust.github.io/

There's people working on it: https://godot-rust.github.io/