A simple Minecraft written in Rust

Last I heard, Hematite was more of a Rust-based renderer of Minecraft worlds than an actual game. For example, I don&#x27;t think it currently supports construction or destruction of blocks.<p>Piston, the project that&#x27;s backing Hematite, is very interesting in that it&#x27;s an attempt to explore idiomatic approaches to game engine design in Rust. I&#x27;m not sure how many game developers will value Rust&#x27;s memory safety over C++&#x27;s sheer flexibility and mature tooling, but I commend the Piston developers for taking a chance on a new and unproven language!<p>EDIT: If you&#x27;d like to take a closer look at game development in Rust, be aware that there exist dedicated communities for this on reddit ( <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/rust_gamedev" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust_gamedev</a> ) and IRC ( <a href="http://client01.chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.mozilla.org&amp;channel=%23rust-gamedev" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;client01.chat.mibbit.com&#x2F;?server=irc.mozilla.org&amp;chan...</a> , a.k.a. #rust-gamdev on irc.mozilla.org).

Nice job, now if you can make a simple Rust in Minecraft I&#x27;ll be even more impressed!

I have a question for people who&#x27;ve advanced ahead of me into rust.<p>With the C and the kind of C++ I write I have some kind of idea what the assembly language that will be generated by the code I&#x27;m writing looks like. I have some idea how the data is going to be laid out in memory. You can think of C and good C++ code as a more convenient way of writing the machine instructions that will execute on your cpu, well at least kinda. But you really can&#x27;t do this with say, haskell or clojure (he said aware he knows little about the former and even less about the latter).<p>How is rust? Can you write some rust code knowing this datastructure will be laid out like so, knowing this function will likely not thrash cache too badly and so on? Inline asm? If you had the crazy idea of writing the &quot;platinum&quot; linker in rust in an attempt to outperform the (written in c++) gold linker is that doomed before you start. Nothing to choose for efficiency between these languages?<p>Oh and how&#x27;s the debugger? Same as gdb on c++?

Lots of other examples here too <a href="https://github.com/PistonDevelopers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PistonDevelopers</a> and website available here <a href="http://www.piston.rs/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.piston.rs&#x2F;</a> for those who want to get started with piston

Note that Hematite uses gfx-rs for rendering, it was mentioned on HN earlier:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610459" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8610459</a>

Build appears as broken but it should be working, Travis is doing its thing. EDIT: Green Travis again :)

Something I always wonder for games not made with C++: how is the performance?

If you&#x27;re looking to play a open source minecraft-like game, without worrying about microsoft copyrights on world files, <a href="http://minetest.net/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;minetest.net&#x2F;</a> is a lot of fun.

Now write the game &quot;Rust&quot; in Minecraft.

I hope Microsoft plays nice with these clones in the future. Especially when they use official assets.

How is that dependency graph plotted in the README?

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First person to say something like &quot;This isn&#x27;t minecraft, minecraft is way more than just placing blocks!&quot; loses.