+++ title = "This Month in Rust GameDev #52 - June 2024" transparent = true date = 2024-07-03 draft = true +++
Welcome to the 52th issue of the Rust GameDev Workgroup's monthly newsletter. Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. These goals are well-aligned with game development. We hope to build an inviting ecosystem for anyone wishing to use Rust in their development process! Want to get involved? Join the Rust GameDev working group!
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godot-rust (GitHub, Discord, Mastodon, Twitter) by @Bromeon provides Rust bindings for the Godot engine.
After quite a bit of development on GitHub, the Godot 4 bindings are now available on crates.io --
you can immediately get started using
cargo add godot. Furthermore, the GDExtension API level can now be specified with a Cargo feature, e.g. api-4-1.
The ScriptInstance API has matured a lot over the past months. This feature allows users to write Godot scripts in Rust, which can be
attached to nodes (just like GDScript). Scripts allow for quickly attaching/detaching functionality in a scene.
The overall API has seen several consistency improvements: reorganized modules, self/&self receivers on geometric types,
easier element access for Array/Dictionary/Packed*Array. The library has also benefited from Rust's
#[diagnostic::on_unimplemented] to improve user-facing error messages.
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