Rust and ecs on godot

Igorltds

I'm new to godot, are there any plans for better integration of rust into godot? Just like in the c#. And the ecs is the focus of godot? Do I really want to program following this paradigm?

Jesusemora

Igorltds better integration of rust

don't know and don't care. rust is garbage.

Igorltds Just like in the c#

C# is a bad language and is just there so certain people don't complain. gdscript is the perfect language and anything you can't do with it you have C++ and Gdextension for.
But to answer your question, there are plans to drop the mono version altogether and make it work with Gdextension, this will also allow other languages to work without a special version of the engine.

Igorltds the ecs is the focus of godot?

what do you mean by this? ECS is a very WIDE term and people tend to get confused.
if you mean like unity, NO, godot is not like unity where there are objects with components. In godot, every node does ONE thing, and nodes are combined to create different things. a collection of nodes can be saved as a Scene. Godot is modular and every node is inherited from another node, all the way up to the Object class.

Tomcat

Igorltds Just like in the c#

C# support was paid for by M$. If you want " just like" it, you can pay for it and Rust will be integrated.

pegasusearl

Igorltds And the ecs is the focus of godot?

Godot has never been ecs, and will probably never be. I'm curious, where did you get this idea?

Igorltds Do I really want to program following this paradigm?

With Godot, probably not. Especially considering you are new to it.
Personally I would just use whatever the default is when trying to learn new game engine, but you are free to experiment.
I still use gdscript for godot projects, even though I'm not a fan.

Igorltds are there any plans for better integration of rust into godot?

As far as I know, "No". They are not official.
Perhaps you will have better response in this discord server.

Jesusemora if you mean like unity, NO, godot is not like unity where there are objects with components.

But dad!! Unity by default is not ECS! Their DOTS is though, but most people I know don't use this. Since he mentioned rust, he probably uses correct term for ECS.

Pspritechologist

Igorltds
Godot is unlikely to ever implement official support for Rust, I don't even think they'd do many languages beyond C# in my opinion, to be honest. On top of that, the C# support for Godot is sub par...
The good news is that the C# support will get better for the same reason you can use Rust- it's going to be moved to GDExtension some time in the future, and Rust GDExtension bindings already exist and make the language quite a joy to use with Godot 🙂

The bindings are not perfect since Godot is far from 1:1 with Rust, but the people working on it have done an amazing job and put in tons of work. You can find the Discord here and the repo here.

As for ECS, Godot is not an ECS game engine. It makes use of high level composition, and you can implement aspects of the ECS pattern yourself, but fundamentally it is OOP. Here is an older article on it not being ECS, and one on some benefits of using Component-style design patterns.

Sorry you got so many snappy responses to this question. 😦

kuligs2

why? when gdscript can do everything youll ever need