laminar
A simple semi-reliable UDP protocol for multiplayer games (by TimonPost)
turbulence
Networking library for games, multiplex reliable and unreliable streams over unreliable datagrams. (by kyren)
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| laminar | turbulence | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | |
| 796 | 253 | |
| 1.1% | 0.8% | |
| 3.9 | 4.2 | |
| 6 months ago | 6 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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Choosing a networking library for my game
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.
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Looking for help deciding which library to use for networking
laminar: networking library used with the amethyst game engine.
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Crate to build network packets over UDP
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.
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UDP Rust Game Server?
For the game packets I would suggest https://github.com/amethyst/laminar.
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message-io: an event-driven message library to build network applications easy and fast. Now with WebSocket support
I think that you are referring to something like laminar or turbulence do.
turbulence
Posts with mentions or reviews of turbulence.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-06.
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Choosing a networking library for my game
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.
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For a multiplayer game that will have browser and mobile app cross-platform, with a client-server architecture, what type of server would you set up?
see https://github.com/kyren/turbulence
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Shattersong Online - New Rust MMO Browser platformer in development by former Starbound and Wargroove devs
turbulence: A networking layer that provides multiplexed data channels (optionally reliable and bandwidth limited) over an unreliable channel.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing laminar and turbulence you can also consider the following projects:
bevy_networking_turbulence - Networking plugin for Bevy engine running on naia-socket and turbulence libraries
uflow - A Rust library providing ordered, mixed-reliability, and congestion-controlled data transfer over UDP
quinn - Async-friendly QUIC implementation in Rust
tokio - A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...
webrtc-unreliable - Just enough hacks to get unreliable unordered WebRTC data channels between a browser and a server
message-io - Fast and easy-to-use event-driven network library.
website - Let's Encrypt Website and Documentation
netcode.io - Reference implementation of netcode.io
hashlink - An updated version of linked-hash-map and friends
backroll-rs - A (almost) 100% pure safe Rust implementation of GGPO-style rollback netcode.