I definitely see where you're coming form, but we're quite confident that we couldn't have made this game without Rust!

There are lots of benefits we get, but here are some of the quick highlights:

1. "Code that compiles probably works" means that we can work quite quickly as a diverse team from all around the world, and not spend so much time worrying if our code will break that of others.

2. Our goal is to eventually be able to get 1000 players on the same world, on the same server. So far, the max we've reached is 195 players at our last release party. Our multiplayer server doesn't just send the location of players, but actually runs a ton of realtime simulations of the world, including economy, trade between towns, physics, NPCs, all with more coming in the future. All this to say with all the work that has to be done, we get massive benefits from how easy it is to do multithreading/ECS paradigm work with Rust

But either way, we always like to shill whatever we like best. Still very happy to be a flagship project to show off how cool Rust is!

What's wrong with it? Rust in one of the things I'm interested in, so it really helps when title contains "Rust". If you don't like it ignore it, nobody is forcing you to go through it.

3D free software game developed in modern times and not a fork of Quake 1 or 3 is what makes this a big deal to me. Rust is a neutral point to me, but it does probably make it harder to run on other architectures.

The biggest negative to me about this project has always been the way they push Discord on you. I'll likely never be a part of the community even if I do play it because of that.

There's a bridge to Matrix, so you don't need to use Discord. Although personally I regard Discord as a nicer experience.

They mention GitLab, Discord, Matrix, Reddit, and their Wiki on their “join us”. Seeing Matrix should be a good sign.

Have you tried Rust? It really is something special.

Yes, but is it so special that us HNers need to be reminded about it every time someone rewrites some random software thingy in Rust? It gets so boring after a while.

I've never felt like anyone was reminding me about anything, HN is a site frequented by programmers, it's useful to programmers to see what other programmers are building and with what tools. Rust is popular so we see it a lot but we also see X written in Go, or Y written in Python, and so on.

I don’t think that’s completely correct - I think “written in rust” being bandied about as a feature is a somewhat unique feature of the Rust community

Not really. It especially happens with currently "interesting" languages more than with others, but it's fairly standard to mention it in places like here. E.g. a few years ago you saw it most with Go or NodeJS, because at that time those were the "interesting" languages.

There's also people like myself who have a general interest in voxel related software. I've always been fond of the aesthetic but also all of the optimizations people use for voxel games and renderers

Of course every project has its own genuine points of interest, I'm not denying that! But the commonality is clear enough.

It's the reason I chose to contribute to the project, so yes.

It's almost like:

Sent from my iPhone

Except now it is:

Written in Rust

Rust guarantees insane performance and no bugs.