For a fun project, I’ve been tinkering with xi-win, an experimental Windows front-end for xi-editor, written in Rust. I’m basically optimizing for performance, so making a number of somewhat unusual decisions. Among other things, I’m writing the UI myself, rather than using an existing toolkit or framework.

It’s been about 6 months since I watched Catherine West’s excellent Using Rust for Game Development sent me down the Entity-Component-System (ECS) rabbit hole, and I thought I’d share some of my findings.
I’ve been meaning to write about this for quite a while now but it took a while to put my thoughts into a cohesive article without throwing massive walls of code at you.
This article is mainly focused around the high-level decisions you make when designing a project, so there won’t be as much code as normal.