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

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Well not quite, unfortunely Rust still has a bit to catch up with 1989, it isn't only the Turbo Vision inspired IDE. https://ia801901.us.archive.org/5/items/TurboPascal55/Antiqu... > Fast! Compiles 34, 000 lines of code per minute https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandtur5.5Brochure1... Measured on a a IBM PS/2 Model 60, meaning an Intel 80286 running at 10 MHz with 640 KB for MS-DOS, up to 8 MB depending on e…

Thank you for the references!

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

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post #3

Cool! I assume TRUST stands for "Turbo Rust"? If yes, maybe it would be worth mentioning that in the readme. I doubt that Embarcadero Technologies (the current owners of the Delphi and C++ Builder IDEs, and probably also the owners of other former Borland trademarks) would mind - but then again, it doesn't hurt to stay on the safe side...

I can neither confirm nor deny what the T stands for. However a quick research showed some trademarks are current and renewed.

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

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post #3

Cool! I assume TRUST stands for "Turbo Rust"? If yes, maybe it would be worth mentioning that in the readme. I doubt that Embarcadero Technologies (the current owners of the Delphi and C++ Builder IDEs, and probably also the owners of other former Borland trademarks) would mind - but then again, it doesn't hurt to stay on the safe side...

Random aside: Back in the day Microsoft used the "Quick" prefix and Borland used "Turbo" . I am waiting for a QRUST.

QRUST - I love that

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

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I haven't felt a lot of desire to code in Rust but I do now! Absolutely applaud this project - it's completely tugged on the retro nostalgia strings for my Turbo Pascal days. Also one of the reasons I enjoy the previously HN featured Microsoft Edit project immensely - https://github.com/microsoft/edit . Thank you OP

Thank you! I appreciate your feedback

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

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post #4

Honestly the experience looks pretty nice. Which is crazy to say for such an old style of program but I kind of like it. Perhaps just nostalgia for a time I never got your experience.

I'm not mad at this at all. It probably runs with like 20kb if RAM. I realize the author is probably just having fun, but if a few modern features added to this and I would probably try it. Multi cursor, a little terminal window, some way to do code hints or intelligence. This would be a dream boat lol

Thank you! I may build this out further. I just wanted to get started and feel like back then; share and see what happens. If I am the only one who is excited about this.
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