I am currently working on converting to the Rust programming language yet another Java applet that I originally wrote a couple of decades ago. Mars is a tank combat game which provides a demonstration of the use of my Rust-based implementation of the A* algorithm. Although you cannot control one of the tanks yet, you can toggle on options to visualize how each tank is using the A* algorithm for pathfinding.
I was struggling with a memory leak in Mars until a member of the Dallas Rust Meetup mentioned that the wee_alloc dependency that I was using for memory allocation with WebAssembly (Wasm) was known to have this issue. I removed wee_alloc and the problem immediately disappeared. I have since updated my Rust-webpack Project Setup tutorial to no longer include wee_alloc in the setup instructions.
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