gamebuilder VS swift-metrics

Google Gamebuilder what I really like to use to teach because it’s using JS. It was killed by Google (ofc) but still available and works perfectly https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder

Here is the original trailer https://youtu.be/l9Mf_XEZq-A

And some of the tutorial videos are also available https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuYHfxlxFzb25nWnevSN5wQVO...

If you are rich enough, you can buy tiktok and sunset it faster than Google killed Game builder

why no go to https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder and get it for free?

Unfortunately Google shelved it but they had a very similar project called Game Builder for Windows

Here is the original introduction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hpFRztQGY

Got open sourced so you can still download it https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder

Works perfectly under Linux with Wine or Proton.

The last full Steam release is also included if you don't want to compile it (7z.001-7z.002-7z.003) https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder/tree/master/bui...

It's really fun and worth a try if you are looking for something similar not on Mac

Also, Apple seems to be putting a ton of work into the Swift-on-server ecosystem. They've released packages for things like tracing, metrics, service discovery, logging, etc. And most of those are basically shared interfaces, and then Apple (or the community) will write backend implementations, like one for statsd which implements the stuff from swift-metrics.

Apple is investing a lot in it, but Swift is much younger than Rust (especially as an open source project). There is a working group that meets every few weeks to shepherd the various projects. Most of the recent activity has been (AFAICT) about orchestration. Well, that and transitioning projects to use async/await and structured concurrency. Here's some recent activity in the Swift on server space:

- the proposal for distributed actors is currently in-review (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...)

- a metrics API for backends like Graphite, Prometheus, etc. (https://github.com/apple/swift-metrics)

- HTTP/2 support for SwiftNIO (https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2)

- a new service discovery API (https://github.com/apple/swift-service-discovery)

- a new distributed tracing API (https://github.com/apple/swift-distributed-tracing)

- a Linux implementation of Apple's CryptoKit API on top of BoringSSL (https://github.com/apple/swift-crypto)

I'm not pretending that it's taking the server-side world by storm, but there is a fair amount of ongoing activity Personally, I'm using it for a couple personal projects and it's been solid, but I'm already a macOS developer, so it wasn't a big stretch for me to reach for it.