bonsai VS electric

The engine's completely bespoke; I wrote everything from the memory allocators and the font rasterizer to the renderer and level editor.

Source code is available online, and there's a discord for those interested.

Github : https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai

Discord : https://discord.gg/hv8NWrGU

Project Repo : https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai

| Bonsai | Realtime 3D Voxel Engine | Seeking Volunteers/Contributors | Remote, Global

Last month I posted a 'real' hiring ad (with an actual salary). I got such an overwhelming response from Intern level candidates that I though I'd put the word out; I'm looking for contributors for an OSS project I work on. If this is an inappropriate venue for this ad, I'm happy to take this down.

Bonsai is a long-running passion project of mine that's recently reached a level of stability with which I'm comfortable including an additional contributor or two. The project is largely inspired by Handmade Hero, and the rules are the same. With very few exceptions, every line of code included in the project has been written by me. This includes everything from the standard library to the font rasterizer, the collision detection, and even a C metaprogramming language.

https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai

As you can imagine, there's a great number of things that could be worked on, and I'm very open to suggestions. That said, a few tasks relatively high on the to-do list are as follows:

* Make some games!

* Implement transparency in the renderer based on this paper : https://www.jcgt.org/published/0002/02/09/paper.pdf

* Implement an MP3 decoder

* Using the metaprogramming language I wrote, implement a GUI tool to introspect the engine data at runtime.

A few more .. ;)

I'm looking for anyone who is passionate about (or passionately learning about) low-level programming, graphics and/or compilers. If you're just starting out with these topics, I'm happy to be a mentor and help you stumble blindly down the path of becoming an excellent engineer. Working on Bonsai has been an absolutely amazing experience for me; it's literally changed my entire life, and I'd love to share it with other folks. If you're looking for a cool new project to work on, and don't need income from it, let's connect.

[email protected]

Obligatory buzzwords : C, C++, OpenGL, WebGL, WASM, 3D graphics, multi-threading

Anyhow, if it sounds like what you're after you can take a look: https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai

Code available : https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai/blob/master/src/engine/voxel_synthesis.cpp

I'm interested in this problem also!

I think there is a large overlap with projects that market/focus on offline-first experiences.

AFAIK this problem can be solved by:

1) Considering a client-side copy of the database that gets synced with the remote DB. This is an approach [PowerSync](https://www.powersync.com/) and [ElectricSql](https://electric-sql.com/) and [rxdb](https://rxdb.info/) take!

Yeah I agree with it being an exaggeration. They are certainly riding the admittedly dated perception that realtime is so hard it's only available to the Googles and Figmas. But there's now some amazing open source solutions available like Y.js and ElectricSQL[1]. The barrier has certainly come down.

[1] https://github.com/electric-sql/electric

https://github.com/electric-sql/electric :

> ElectricSQL is a local-first software platform that makes it easy to develop high-quality, modern apps with instant reactivity, realtime multi-user collaboration and conflict-free offline support.

> Local-first is a new development paradigm where your app code talks directly to an embedded local database and data syncs in the background via active-active database replication. Because the app code talks directly to a local database, apps feel instant. Because data syncs in the background via active-active replication it naturally supports multi-user collaboration and conflict-free offline

"SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge" (2023)

Yup, this is correct.

We have had some requests / discussions around adding hooks to the sync service that will support custom logic on the write path (as per https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/discussions/565). This seems like a good idea but they don't exist yet.