https://www.martinellis.me/tags/raylib/ Recent content in Raylib on Martin Ellis Hugo en-us This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.martinellis.me/posts/2026/07/beg-button-part-2-the-rust-rewrite/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.martinellis.me/posts/2026/07/beg-button-part-2-the-rust-rewrite/ <p>In 2024 I took a beg button, with a screen in it, to EMF as a little installtion for our village, this year with the best laid plans I entended to &ldquo;make it better&rdquo;, starting with the software running the whole thing.</p> <p><img src="https://www.martinellis.me/posts/2026/07/beg-button-part-2-the-rust-rewrite/images/begbutton1.png" alt="The Beg Button at EMF"></p> <p>At the end of <a href="https://www.martinellis.me/posts/2024/03/emf-camp-beg-button/">the last post about the beg button</a> (two years ago) I said I &ldquo;might even re-write everything in a more performant engine as an excuse to learn a new tool&rdquo;<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>. Well, here we are. This is the second post about the same beg button, and it is the story of taking the whole thing from Python and pygame to Rust and <a href="https://www.raylib.com/">raylib</a>.</p>