Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor

30•discomrobertul8•57m ago

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nsxwolf•44m ago

Vibe coded?

TheDong•34m ago

Seems to have commits from 2023 and a copyright notice claiming "from 2015-present", so at least parts of it likely predate vibe coding.

JokerDan•18m ago

Video from a few years ago that might offer some background/context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVKeKpNQto

The channel has a few videos on it, not watched any other than this introductory one but some of the titles look interesting.

Also the introduction video above states an initial requirement of 'every PR must have a video' but it looks like that got dropped a while ago.

kgwxd•16m ago

Is there something that gives it that impression? Didn't look at it too hard, but the readme tells a story of focused passion for the language, and programming in general. Vibe documented?

etse•41m ago

What’s the challenge with getting it working in macOS? Vulkan?

MindSpunk•19m ago

They're not using a library like SDL for windowing and input as far as I can tell. All the MacOS interfaces are in Objective-C or Swift, which I would wager (I've never used Go fwiw) aren't as easy to bind to from Go code.

MoltenVK has some extra interfaces you need to integrate with too, it's not a completely hands off setup.

bobajeff•14m ago

About garbage collection:

Are there a lot of Unity/Godot devs unaware that their engines are using GC? I would assume they'd have accepted the cost of GC already.

Unreal devs I can understand having an issue with it though.

groundzeros2015•11m ago

GitHub is filled with these because it’s always easier to make an engine than a game. You play with the fun tech and make the graphics engine. You never make any tough tradeoffs because you don’t have a target to aim at.

When an engine becomes useful is when it has to make a game. All your abstractions tend to get rearranged and hard decisions are made.

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