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Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron

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47 points DavidCanHelp | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 00:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dvt ◴[03 Sep 25 05:54 UTC] No.45112624[source]▶
Feels a bit more like Snake than Tron, but a very cool concept. Also quite impressed by the very readable 1000 lines of code. I've been writing a lot of Rust (various toy projects) for the past few years, but would love to do it for work at some point.
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1. IFC_LLC ◴[03 Sep 25 14:34 UTC] No.45116328[source]▶
Gee, I'm sorry, but this is just over my head.

It takes over 282 crates to build this 1000 lines of code. It takes 1.3 gigs of space to display a window with a game on one's screen. And the AI does not work at all since it just crashes in itself. I'm not sure how this can be a good example of a program written in Rust. Rust is all about low-level optimized over-speedy small-sized binaries. Right now I see just a blob of something that barely works.

And yes, Light Cycle is in fact just a version of a Snake with a different ruleset.