Comment by vlovich123
8 hours ago
Seems like game consoles for example has been accomplished by at least one dedicated team even if the vendor nor upstream provide official support: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/78bowa/hey_this_is_ky...
I’m sure if Rust becomes more popular in the game dev community, game consoles support will be a solved problem since these consoles are generally just running stock PC architectures with a normal OS and there’s probably almost nothing wrong with the stock toolchain in terms of generating working binaries: PlayStation and Switch are FreeBSD (x86 vs ARM respectively) and Xbox is x86 Windows, all of which are supported platforms.
Being supported on a games console means that you can produce binaries that are able to go through the whole approval process, and there is day 1 support for anything that is provided by the console vendor.
Otherwise is yak shaving instead of working on the actual game code.
Some people like to do that, that is how new languages like Rust get adoption, however they are usually not the majority, hence why mainstream adoption without backing from killer projects or companies support is so hard, and very few make it.
Also you will seldom see anyone throw away the confort of Unreal, Unity or even Godot tooling, to use Rust instead, unless they are more focused on proving the point the game can be made in Rust, than the actual game design experience.
> Switch
Good luck shipping arbitrary binaries to this target. The most productive way for an indie to ship to Nintendo in 2025 is to create the game Unity and build via the special Nintendo version of the toolchain.
How long do we think it would take to fully penetrate all of these pipeline stages with rust? Particularly Nintendo, who famously adopts the latest technology trends on day 1. Do we think it's even worthwhile to create, locate, awaken and then fight this dragon? C# with incremental GC seems to be more than sufficient for a vast majority of titles today.
Not only Unity, Capcom is using their own fork of .NET in their game engine.
Devil May Cry for the Playstation 5 was shipped with it.