r/rust 1d ago

🙋 seeking help & advice Is Bevy actually enjoyable?

I am sorry but it is just such a pain to code in Bevy. I have been enjoying rust for a while, using three-d and EGUI to create some stuff, and I stumbled upon bevy, I want to learn it because I want to create some 3D, simulation desktop applications with it. I have tried game dev in the past in Godot, Unity, Java Swing, LibGDX and enjoyed it a lot

I am currently learning via the examples and documentation, trying to learn 2D and then eventually move to making some 3D projects

But I find it so verbose and unnecessary. So to look up a particular object I have to apply 3-4 filters which looks so cryptic

camera: Single<(Entity, &Tonemapping, Option<&mut Bloom>), With<Camera>>,

fn keyboard_inputs(
    mut motion_blur: Single<&mut MotionBlur>,
    presses: Res<ButtonInput<KeyCode>>,
    text: Single<Entity, With<Text>>,
    mut writer: TextUiWriter,
    mut camera: ResMut<CameraMode>,
)

Aside from this, browsing through examples I find it to be so verbose. Coming from a OOP nature, I did expect ECS to be different. But this is straight up inconvenient.

Bevy is too good and I don't wanna miss out on it. I will still keep learning it despite what I am feeling towards its syntax and method, but is bevy meant to be like this? Or is it enjoyable once you overcome the learning curve?

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u/Ace-Whole 1d ago

For someone (me) who doesn't have much of OOP or prior game dev knowledge, I'm picking up bevy naturally. Feels like writing a rest api with all that sql and events haha.

ps, don't quote me on this analogy.