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I copied this exact same snippet and was going to comment the exact same thing.

Why choose Rust if you don’t care about maintainability and long term stability? Those are core values of the language!

The language choice was wrong from the start. C++ is king for games so if you care more about delivering features and fast prototyping why not go with that?

Maybe Rust is not a good language for rapid iteration in the game industry. And that’s ok I think.

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C++ is king for game engines, but many games opt for languages like Lua or Unreal Blueprints because C++ is to those as Rust is to C++

Personally I like Javascript

Right. Yes, you are correct. I assumed C++ was the language they replaced with Rust because they wanted to write lower level stuff, like their own engines (and they mention doing that).

It makes even less sense to use Rust to replace one of the higher level languages like C#.

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