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55 | 165 | |
1,976 | 22,704 | |
4.3% | 3.0% | |
9.7 | 9.9 | |
2 days ago | 7 days ago | |
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MIT License | MIT License |
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zig-gamedev
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Zig for gamedev?
Two game frameworks in the making: https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev & https://github.com/hexops/mach
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Projects / areas of specialization for learning zig
I did a hangman game, I'm doing a file compression tool next. I asked bing chat to recommend beginner projects for zig and that's what it told me. It also suggested a cli calculator and a cli text editor, but I didn't want to do that. My next thing will be something using https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev
- zig-gamedev project: Monthly Progress Report - Feb 2023 (zflecs, zsdl, zopengl and more)
- zig-gamedev project: Monthly Progress Report (January 2023)
- zig-gamedev project: zphysics v0.0.4 - Zig API and C API for Jolt Physics
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Just found out about Zig and wonder what would be the best graphics library to pair with it?
This repo may be useful. It isn't an engine or a renderer, but rather a collection of useful libraries if you do end up writing your own tools. https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev
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Is C++ still the language when entering 3D programming in 2023?
Something like vulkano in Rust or zig-gamedev in zig might be a much more enjoyable approach: They're similarly bare metal languages but have a lot of advantages over C++ (borrow checker's safety, simpler syntax). However, they're not commonly used by big studios.
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Gamedev in zig
I've been working on a gamedev project in zig, using zig-gamedev. It has many libraries you can use, though my game is 2D. Feel free to check out my project if you want to see how I set things up. https://github.com/foxnne/aftersun
- zig-gamedev project - progress report
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Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig
Language-level guarantees of memory safety are not critical to all low-level programmers, and sometimes this is fine!
Developers of games, compilers, digital audio workstations, video editors, and live performance software (such as openFrameworks) likely don't rank memory safety as their top concern.
Zig is already an attractive choice for those domains because it offers:
- Great compile times compared to C++/Rust, and future plans to implement hot reloading as a core part of the tooling: https://www.jakubkonka.com/2022/03/16/hcs-zig.html
- The ability to reason about where data exists in memory: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Where-are-the-byte...
- Good readability and learnability, especially if you have a C/C++ background.
- Comptime that enables clean generics, compile-time reflection and general metaprogramming as a happy side-effect: https://kristoff.it/blog/what-is-zig-comptime/
- Better tooling than C/C++. The ability to cross-compile Zig and C/C++ from one machine lets you set up much more stable and reproducible build environments already. You can clone zig-gamedev and have the demos working with just three commands on Windows/macOS/Linux, for example, and two of those three are cloning the repo and changing to the directory: https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev (to build you will need the latest copy of Zig from the 'masters' section for your platform at https://ziglang.org/download/ )
We should all be careful about insinuating that memory unsafe languages should not exist. I see “friends don't let friends use memory-unsafe languages” on social media and feel sick. It's much healthier to embrace the melting pot of Zig, Odin, D, Beef, Vale, Hare, Lobster, Jai, C3, Val, Roc and all the rest and see what new ideas and trade-offs they bring.
Also worth noting that new languages tend to take time to develop their own philosophies to memory safety (Vale's approach is only just now emerging, for example: https://verdagon.dev/blog/making-regions-part-1-human-factor ). Zig's story might not be great now ( https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/ ), but then it's not Zig's priorty at the moment, and Zig's full story is not yet written.
iced
- Cosmic Desktop Is Slated to Debut with Pop _OS 24.04 LTS
- Iced 0.12 Released
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I'm trying to build a progress bar for an Iced GUI app and having a lot of trouble with it.
I am building an app using Iced that takes hashes of the files in a directory and assigns them to a profile. The problem is that I can't get the progress bar to update in real time. I've been checking out examples like this https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/tree/master/examples/download_progress. But I just can't get the progress bar to move. Is anyone available to take a look at my code and maybe show me a fix (as long as you're okay with MIT licensing your changes)?
- A cross-platform GUI library for Rust
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Crate Suggestions for Web Frontend
What about Yew and Iced?
- LXD is now under Canonical
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What's everyone working on this week (27/2023)?
Working on Halloy - an IRC chat client for Mac, Windows and Linux. Written with Iced as GUI framework.
- Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
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Halloy - a GUI application with Iced for IRC
It’s a pretty new feature we merged 2 months ago: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/1856
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Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
Holy shit this GUI framework looks good. I am a Qt fanboi, but this looks great. Normally, I skip all the "X for Rust" posts as a bunch of fanaticism. Could it really be different this time???
The feature list is really impressive: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
Plus, here is the road map with many things already done: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
Wow, wow, wow: Keep up the great work.
One of the rendering engines is Skia by Google. This library is sneaking up fast on us...
What are some alternatives?
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
alg - Algebra for Zig
druid - A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
basis_universal - Basis Universal GPU Texture Codec
yew - Rust / Wasm framework for creating reliable and efficient web applications
mach - zig game engine & graphics toolkit
slint - Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.
vos - Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language
gtk-rs - Rust bindings for GTK 3