Newsletter 11: Macroquad & Nanoserde

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 [`hecs`]: https://crates.io/crates/hecs
 [Rayon]: https://crates.io/crates/rayon
 
+### [nanoserde]
+
+[nanoserde] by [@fedor_games] is a fork of makepad-tinyserde
+with syn/quote/proc_macro2 dependencies removed.
+
+It attempts to solve a serde's problems of long clean compilation time,
+increased incremental build time, and build artifacts size.
+nanoserde may be useful when the whole game has less than a minute
+clean build time and spending ~40s on serde is unreasonable.
+
+```text
+> cargo tree
+nanoserde v0.1.0 (/../nanoserde)
+└── nanoserde-derive v0.1.0 (/../nanoserde/derive)
+```
+
+Some benchmarks and tiled map deserializing example
+[could be fould here][nanoserde-bench].
+
+[nanoserde]: https://github.com/not-fl3/nanoserde/
+[@fedor_games]: https://twitter.com/fedor_games
+[nanoserde-bench]: https://github.com/not-fl3/nanoserde-bench
+
+### [macroquad]
+
+[macroquad] by [@fedor_games] is cross-platform
+(Windows/Linux/macOS/Android/WASM) game framework
+build on top of [miniquad].
+
+The project now has [a Discord community server](https://discord.gg/WfEp6ut)
+([Matrix bridge](https://matrix.to/#/#quad-general:matrix.org))
+with channels for all the quad-family projects:
+miniquad, macroquad, good-web-game, and nanoserde.
+
+megaui is macroquad's imgui-like UI system.
+Recently, megaui got decent input widgets: input fields, editboxes, and sliders.
+All of them support copy-pasting back and forth from the browser.
+Check out [the web demo](https://not-fl3.github.io/miniquad-samples/ui.html)
+([source](https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad/blob/master/examples/ui.rs)):
+
+![ui](macroquad_ui.gif)
+
+Also, two new examples came from the awesome macroquad community:
+
+- "snake" - try it [in the browser][mq-snake-web] ([source][mq-snake])
+
+  [![snake demo](macroquad_snake.gif)][mq-snake-web]
+
+- "asteroids" - try it [in the browser][mq-asteroids-web] ([source][mq-asteroids])
+
+  [![asteroids](macroquad_asteroids.gif)][mq-asteroids-web]
+
+[macroquad]: https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad
+[miniquad]: https://github.com/not-fl3/miniquad
+[mq-snake]: https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad/blob/master/examples/snake.rs
+[mq-asteroids]: https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad/blob/master/examples/asteroids.rs
+[mq-snake-web]: https://not-fl3.github.io/miniquad-samples/snake.html
+[mq-asteroids-web]: https://not-fl3.github.io/miniquad-samples/asteroids.html
+
 ### [Tetra 0.4][tetra-040]
 
 [Tetra] is a simple 2D game framework, inspired by XNA and Raylib. This month,