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		bcrosby95 on April 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years Hell no. Lots of these games take 5-7 years to make. You want to turn that into 10-14? I can live with the rare crash bugs.

eviks on April 27, 2024 | [–]

What if it's 5-7, but only after there is a deep enough dev pool and language tooling to address some of the productivity issues mentioned in the blog? Why make up arbitrary x2 factors?

Repulsion9513 on April 28, 2024 | [–]

IDK, seems to me like studios did just fine putting release-quality games out at release 15-20 years ago shrug

"rare" LOL

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