rust-rdkafka VS rapier

I use this library a lot and it's got some nice touches for how to handle wrapping a C library: https://github.com/fede1024/rust-rdkafka

For this example, we're using rdkafka to build producers and consumers, because it allows us to specify custom headers for each record.

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You might find https://crates.io/crates/rdkafka helpful

I am playing with tokio and rust-rdkafka library, following the examples like this one: https://github.com/fede1024/rust-rdkafka/blob/6fb2c37/examples/asynchronous_processing.rs

The source for the current version of the library can be found on Github. I had to increase the major version because I needed to break the API in order to support all formats supported by the current Schema Registry version. I also added the possibility to set an API key, so it can be used with Confluent Cloud, the cloud offering from Confluent. As part of the latest major refactoring it's also supporting async. This might improve performance of your app, and is also the default for the major Kafka client, more information about why you would want to use async can be found in the async book. The schemas retrieved from the Schema Registry are cached. This way the schema is only retrieved once for each id, and reused for other messages with the same id.

What's wrong with rust-rdkafka?

This is a two-part series to help you get started with Rust and Kafka. We will be using the rust-rdkafka crate which itself is based on librdkafka (C library).

Ok, so this uses https://rapier.rs/ which is very cool

Rapier, alongside https://nalgebra.org/ (which it uses underneath) has seriously good documentation and some advanced features like cross-platform determinism (something made hard by the way floating point differs between platforms)

Code examples: see examples2d, examples3d-f64 and examples3d directories

What are the pros and cons compared to something like Rapier? When should one use Bevy XPBD instead of Rapier, or vice versa?

Still using Rust in a browser-based multiplayer party game I'm working on! I'm using Actix Web for the backend and rapier2d to handle my game's physics. I'm looking to make some more connections amongst the developer / gaming community through my game down the line.

I have noticed that Rapier 0.17 contains a RopeJoint struct, which constrains maximum distance between two dynamic bodies. It doesn't seem to have found its way into bevy_rapier3d yet so I haven't understood whether it supports (half of) my use case, and looking at the code (https://github.com/dimforge/rapier/blob/master/src/dynamics/joint/rope_joint.rs) I really cannot see how it is actually implemented and how I could extend it to also set a minimum distance, but this may be a place to start.

I was also frustrated with the kcc, so I opened a PR that fixes most of my issues: https://github.com/dimforge/rapier/pull/446

Likewise, see the js bindings of Rapier.

Maybe check out how Rapier does it. Rapier is likely the most advanced physics engine in Rust. (Though Embark Studios is doing some crazy stuff with ML physics.)

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