Gdnative Alternatives

gdnative reviews and mentions

• Migrating Away from Rust
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Apr 2025

  It is indeed great for creating a prototype. After that, one can gradually migrate to Rust go benefit from faster execution times. The Rust bindings are in a pretty decent shape by now

  https://godot-rust.github.io/

• Can someone explain how exactly are multiple languages supported in a single game engine
  1 project | /r/godot | 12 Nov 2023
• Will rust ever become a first class citizen in Godot?
  1 project | /r/godot | 6 Aug 2023
• Non web-based crossplatform GUI frameworks focused on security
  2 projects | /r/rust | 27 Jun 2023

  It's a little less standard use, but Godot has been used to build application guis, which could be paired with rust bindings to implement app logic. I can't speak to reproducibility/scalability, but Godot's ui is extremely solid, and I'd probably choose that over Bevy until Bevy's ui progress matures.

• What is Rust's potential in game development?
  12 projects | /r/rust | 15 Jun 2023

  Adding onto this, I successfully written a game in Godot using gdnative / gdext. I started with a split approach using gdscript and rust for CPU intensive but found that the API layer was slow at transferring large amounts of data (serialization?). I ended up rewriting it in all rust and it worked like a charm. I was able to target native and web assembly, the web assembly was much slower but worked on the browser.

• Why is it so difficult to learn to use Bevy?
  3 projects | /r/bevy | 31 May 2023

  Check this: https://github.com/tomuxmon/bevy_roguelike if you are still into bevy. Scheduling is a bit bork and I have not found time to port it to latest bevy. But most of the systems should work fine(if used on latest bevy). But again. If you want faster result go with something like Godot. In fact, just go with Godot. It is mature, easy to start, no lock in(free and MIT license), a lot of learning material. Also with Godot you can also use Rust https://godot-rust.github.io/. Ditch Unity (do not have time to explain 😅). Have fun!

• GDScript is fine
  4 projects | /r/godot | 7 Apr 2023

  Bevy Godot-Rust

• Rust – Are We Game Yet?
  15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2023

  > Same for Godot.

  While likely true that it's "Unlikely to ever be as supported" as the 4 officially supported languages[0] ("GDScript, C#, and, via its GDExtension technology, C and C++."), Godot's GDExtension technology is specifically intended for use in adding support for other languages.

  The most relevant tracking issue for Rust is presumably:

  * <https://github.com/godot-rust/gdnative/issues/824>

  Which links to:

  * <https://github.com/godot-rust/gdextension>

  [0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.0/getting_started/step_by_...

• OK so whose gonna tell them
  5 projects | /r/rustjerk | 12 Mar 2023

  ...Godot v3.x has Rust support via godot-rust and Godot v4.0 is released as of this month?

• Godot 4.0 is out
  3 projects | /r/linux | 1 Mar 2023

  I was curious, and looked it up. Nothing built in, but there's an interesting project that works with godot: https://godot-rust.github.io/

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