Developer Integrates Rust Into Unreal Engine
The developer at Embark Studios Maik Klein recently managed to integrate Rust into Unreal Engine. Klein said that making the programming language work on the platform was part of a passion project, something carried out exclusively in their spare time. Embark is a game studio based in Stockholm, Sweden which is mostly known for the free-to-play shooter ARC Raiders.
Rust is a relatively new programming language sponsored by the company behind Firefox, Mozilla. The aim was basically to increase memory safety and reduce the possibility of data races. Rust is described as “blazingly fast and memory efficient. With no runtime or garbage collector, it can power performance critical services, run on embedded devices, and easily integrate with other languages.” When it comes to reliability, the programming language has a “rich type system and ownership model” which guarantees “memory safety and thread safety, enabling you to eliminate many classes of bugs at compile time.”
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“A few months ago, I asked myself ‘what if I could write a game in Rust, but use Unreal as a renderer?’ After a bit of thinking, I came to the conclusion that exposing the Unreal renderer to Rust via C Foreign Function Interface was way more work than I was willing to do,” Klein remarked on their development blog. “But what if I could just build on top of Unreal instead?”
Klein went about getting game objects to move and animations to play. “But I wanted to do more than just move things around,” the developer said. "I wanted to play sounds, do physics, have 3D pathfinding, spawn particles, create prefabs, do networking. This made me realize that I actually did not want to use Unreal just as
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