Comment by hi-v-rocknroll
9 months ago
Haha. Nope. Maybe Nim, V*, Go*, or Elixir would be a better choice for such a use-case.
* So fast, they really don't need HCR.
9 months ago
Haha. Nope. Maybe Nim, V*, Go*, or Elixir would be a better choice for such a use-case.
* So fast, they really don't need HCR.
HCR provides changing things while th game is running in it's current state. fast recompile does not.
Start game, wait for engine to initialize, select level, wait for it to load, move player or camera to desired location. Now iterate on something at that location via HCR. If you have to recompile and restart the game you're not going to have fast iteration
Nim does, when tied in with Unreal Engine 5.
https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdr4-cOsAWA
I haven't tried it yet but I've wondered if Elixir might be a good choice for a game server with many concurrent players.
Definitely and for chat.
BEAM/HiPE VM allows native linking using NIFs so it's possible to integrate Erlang or Elixir with C-compatible projects for critical code sections, library interfacing, and perhaps even the majority of a performance-critical game engine as native code. Rustler also exists to write NIFs in Rust. Recall how VMware ESXi core tech was implemented mostly as Linux kernel modules and heavily-modified Linux to turn it inside-out as a type-1 hypervisor.