procedural-spider VS mun

I feel like ECS is that in a lot of ways, where the sweetspot is narrower than it seems. I'd veeeeeery much recommend trying out Macroquad + HECS (or even bevy_ecs). I remember the feeling I got after taking yet another round of gamedeving with bevy and going into macroquad, and I was just blown away by how much more productive I was. Maybe it's the way my brain works, and maybe I'm too much of a "hacker" to do things properly first, but if you want a specific example check out this small game I made in Macroquad (link to github in description). I went from "never used this" to "maybe I should do procedural animation" to finished game in about a day.

I made a small open-source game with Macroquad for the last Ludum Dare and it was quite easy (source code and assets here (MIT license, use however you want)).

Source code + assets (MIT license): https://github.com/darthdeus/procedural-spider

Mun is a statically typed language that compiles to machine code with LLVM, designed to be hot-reloadable: https://mun-lang.org/.

Perhaps https://mun-lang.org? Might be a bit raw for your needs tho.

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Whenever I read about Mun, I'm always really, really intrigued… Until I remember that it currently has no string type and support for one is not currently planned. That's a bit of a shame, IMHO, because otherwise, this looks great!

There's mun [1] which is statically typed and AOT compiled.

1: https://github.com/mun-lang/mun

From the reverse-dependencies of the salsa crate, the (archived) Lark compiler used it and the Mun compiler uses it.

I notice that there are projects like mun trying to achieve a similar goal, but I'm kind of curious why they are not getting much attention from the community.

Have you heard of https://mun-lang.org/ ?

It's an embeddable scripting language with the goal of being a Rust-like language that supports hot reloading of functions AND data. To achieve the latter, it uses GC'ed memory such that memory can easily be mapped when the memory's type changes.

It's still in early development but maybe one day will serve your needs :)

In terms of pure Rust engines/frameworks it seems the overall "problem" is lack of scripting, at least from my perspective. Mun seemed extremely interesting, but since even the project itself says "don't use it" I guess it's not a real option, and considering the amount of time we spent on the GDScript/Rust integration I'm a little worried that rolling something more custom would be even less efficient.