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haha - someone should do it
Nowadays it would be called VisualRust365 with CoPilot. And suck.
But we can make a Windows NT 3.51 version of Visual Rust, that doesn't suck.
Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989
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Re: Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989
#62If only it would fit on a floppy.
Re: Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989
#63Looking at this makes me nostalgic in a way the author probably hasn't intended. Rust is notorious for its slow compile times, while Turbo Pascal was known to be blazingly fast. And the debugger, one of the most important part of the experience is "Not implemented". Dressing it as a 1989 IDE makes me painfully aware of what we have lost. Despite running on hardware that were orders of magnitudes slower than today, so…
Some of us still haven't lost it thanks to Delphi, C++ Builder, .NET or even Java. However they aren't fashionable in the days of Electron and CLI nostalgia. So you end up with Go on vim, instead of FreePascal on Lazarus.
Heck, some of us haven't even given up on Perl.
Re: Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989
#64If only it would fit on a floppy.
Well, in release mode it is currently 1048KB. Works for a 3.2" HD
Re: Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989
#65My first experience with programming was QBASIC in like 1997 - looked just like this. Minus the anti-aliased fonts, and a far lower resolution.
Re: Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989
#66My first experience with programming was QBASIC in like 1997 - looked just like this. Minus the anti-aliased fonts, and a far lower resolution.
To me it looks more like the early versions of Borland C++ for MS-DOS but yes similar TUIs.
Re: Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989
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Some of us still haven't lost it thanks to Delphi, C++ Builder, .NET or even Java. However they aren't fashionable in the days of Electron and CLI nostalgia. So you end up with Go on vim, instead of FreePascal on Lazarus.
Heck, some of us haven't even given up on Perl.
I don't use it very often anymore (except for oneliners or simple one-offs) but I still like it!
Re: Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989
#68The blue CRT glow of Turbo C++ / QBasic 4.5 IDE at 12 AM when I've snuck up in the middle of the night to poke around on the family computer on a school night when I was ~10 years old... I love this.
was here, done that !
Re: Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989
#69Turbo Vision library, which apparently inspired TRust, had a great object model, in which you could derive built-in classes implementing controls, windows, validators etc., extend them by adding custom functionalities and seamlessly plug them into the system. Imagine extending the built-in TEditor class to handle syntax highlighting, or extending TDialog to handle complex multi-tab option dialogs.
To beat 1989 and Turbo Pascal, TRust must do that (perhaps the Rust's way).