[Suggestion] Suppor for rust lang? about flaxengine HOT 4 OPEN

I see no reason to add support for another language. Flax supports C# for ease of use and fast scripting and C++ for when performance is a concern. Adding support for another language is a monumental task that provides no benefit. Not to mention the ongoing cost of maintenance. Currently the glue between C++/C# is tight enough that provides the most ease of use. Adding more languages will degrade that ease of use just to accommodate them.

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Complementing @MineBill this also can affect the compilation speed, Flax is fast to build releases but where we will use Rust? On Backend? Why ? C++ already have a very good API and i don't see any reason to change it.

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Imo, it should be made somewhat easier to integrate other languages. I personally would like to be able to use golang or lua, but currently thats not an option.

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Flax supports integrating custom scripting languages via plugins. For example, in-built Visual Scripting is using this API like shown here:

• https://github.com/FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine/blob/master/Source/Tools/Flax.Build/Build/Plugins/VisualScriptingPlugin.cs
• https://github.com/FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine/blob/master/Source/Engine/Content/Assets/VisualScript.h
• https://github.com/FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine/blob/master/Source/Engine/Content/Assets/VisualScript.cpp
• https://github.com/FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine/blob/master/Source/Editor/Content/Items/VisualScriptItem.cs
• https://github.com/FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine/blob/master/Source/Editor/Content/Proxy/VisualScriptProxy.cs
• https://github.com/FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine/blob/master/Source/Editor/Surface/VisualScriptSurface.cs

Before we even consider integrating Rust into the engine, firstly 3rd party plugin would need to be developed and widely used. Of course, we're open to help integrating such thing into the engine (eg. exposing engine internals around BinaryModule and ScriptingType...).

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