laminar VS netcode.io

Compare laminar vs netcode.io and see what are their differences.

laminar

A simple semi-reliable UDP protocol for multiplayer games (by TimonPost)

netcode.io

Reference implementation of netcode.io (by vvanders)
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laminar netcode.io
5 1
796 24
1.1% -
3.9 0.0
6 months ago over 6 years ago
Rust C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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laminar

Posts with mentions or reviews of laminar. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-06.
  • Choosing a networking library for my game
    8 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 6 May 2022
    enet - Golden standard, tested and reliable - Not native rust - Does not seem to be popular in rust turbulence - Readme says it is not stable, but last meaningful commit was 1 year ago - Lacking documentation and examples - Not very popular laminar - Last meaningful release was 3 years ago (ignoring changes that fix typos etc.) - Despite this, everywhere (book, readme) there are mentions that it is under "active development" - Created for Amethyst, which is dead. I am kinda fearful that the same thing will happen to this lib. Tachyon - New and not tested in the battle - Many features that other libraries have planned, Tachyon actually has implemented - Lacking documentation (except for one big readme file), tests, examples Quinn - Big, under active development (daily commits), very popular because web development. - Modular, ability to just use core implemetation: quinn-proto - Do i really need TLS certificates and cryptography for my playing with friends game server? - Stream based, I would need to implement recv/send messages on top of it (not that hard tbh) - Only reliable stream and "unreliable" messages.
  • Looking for help deciding which library to use for networking
    5 projects | /r/rust | 23 Oct 2021
    laminar: networking library used with the amethyst game engine.
  • Crate to build network packets over UDP
    5 projects | /r/rust | 9 Jul 2021
    Maybe check out laminar and quinn, which implement custom protocols on top of UDP (quinn implements QUIC), to get an idea on how to do things.
  • UDP Rust Game Server?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 15 Apr 2021
    For the game packets I would suggest https://github.com/amethyst/laminar.
  • message-io: an event-driven message library to build network applications easy and fast. Now with WebSocket support
    5 projects | /r/rust | 17 Feb 2021
    I think that you are referring to something like laminar or turbulence do.

netcode.io

Posts with mentions or reviews of netcode.io. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-15.
  • UDP Rust Game Server?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 15 Apr 2021
    I mean the part of a game server that is not game specific, but deals with providing a secure client connection by using a custom protocol like netcode.io?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing laminar and netcode.io you can also consider the following projects:

bevy_networking_turbulence - Networking plugin for Bevy engine running on naia-socket and turbulence libraries

quinn - Async-friendly QUIC implementation in Rust

tokio - A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

message-io - Fast and easy-to-use event-driven network library.

uflow - A Rust library providing ordered, mixed-reliability, and congestion-controlled data transfer over UDP

turbulence - Networking library for games, multiplex reliable and unreliable streams over unreliable datagrams.

MIO - Metal I/O library for Rust.

netcrab - A multi-purpose TCP/UDP networking command line tool

enet-rs - High-level bindings for the ENet networking library (http://enet.bespin.org)

backroll-rs - A (almost) 100% pure safe Rust implementation of GGPO-style rollback netcode.

rperf - rperf is a Rust-based iperf alternative developed by 3D-P