What's the purpose of splitting the game in a separate lib?

[IceSentry]

I'm not sure if it's appropriate to ask here, but I was curious what exactly is the benefit of splitting the game in it's own lib. Is it to help with compile time?

[NiklasEi]

I think the compile-time benefits are negligible for the template. In general, I prefer a lib for anything containing non-trivial logic.

• Better & easier testing
• You might want multiple binaries using the same libs (think e.g. multiplayer game sharing libs for server/client binaries)
• You could split a growing game into several libs (then you might start to get faster compile times after changes in just one of the libs)

[NiklasEi]

I'll close this for now. If you are not happy with my answer, feel free to reopen 🙂

[IceSentry]

Oh sorry, forgot to close it myself, yeah, I'm happy with your answer