Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989

Post by fithisux » Sat, May 09, 2026, 8:32 AM UTC

GuB-42 wrote: post #55

anta40 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Rust is notorious for its slow compile times Don't forget Haskell. And what's other... C++, OCaml, etc? I guess a language with complex/complicated design is difficult to be compiled "blazing fast"

Rust is not alone to compile slowly. And yes, there are reasons, but if you want to pick a language to fit the Turbo Pascal vibes, that's not it. Zig and Go would probably be better modern languages for this. Also "Turbo Zig" and "Turbo Go" sound cool, "Trust" sounds too corporate :)

Post by wojtczyk » Sat, May 09, 2026, 7:04 PM UTC

fithisux wrote: post #90

I like it. I will posdibly use it just for the nostalgia.

Post by kilakulusu » Sun, May 10, 2026, 8:04 AM UTC

Post by wojtczyk » Wed, May 20, 2026, 4:32 AM UTC

GuB-42 wrote: post #19

Looking 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…