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0 points0cf8612b2e1e1y ago0 comments

Huh. Never would have guessed. I am sure there were many “fancy” effects in the game, but during my playthrough, it all felt like it would have been achievable on a SNES.

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Kiro1y ago

It's not about that. They are talking about complications in general when porting a JavaScript game to Switch.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155807

pjmlp1y ago

That is to be expected by anything that isn't C, C++ and Assembly, also why Unity has IL2CPP.

Even Rust is going to be heroic levels until console vendors decide it is an acceptable language to be made available on their devkits.

jdnxudbe1y ago

I am not familiar with either Rust or the Switch, so maybe you can enlighten me: why would a Rust game be challenging on the Switch?

As long as you have a good C ffi (which Rust has), shouldn't it be quite easy?

Or is the Switch more similar to Android/iPhone where you cannot (could not?) run native code directly but have to use a platform specific language like Java or Objective C?

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