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

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Post by wojtczyk »

boxed wrote: post #13
2ndorderthought wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

https://github.com/boxed/TurboKod I started this just for the lulz, but now I've got: copy/paste/undo multiple cursors debuggers syntax highlighting (even nested languages with jetbrains style comments!) find-in-files integrated documentation integrated git client (roughly modeled after lazygit) spell checking and tons more that I can't even remember

OP here. Thanks for sharing! I love your project. Looks very polished and true to the experience.

And yes, TRUST got started for the lulz and feels.

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

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Post by wojtczyk »

q3k wrote: post #9
vsgherzi wrote: 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.

A year or so ago I spent half a day writing some Rust on an actual DEC glass teletype (VT520) connected to a Debian box. I used vim and shell job control (^Z, jobs, fg, etc.) to switch between tooling and a persistent text editor. It made me feel things.

I can imagine. Thank you for sharing! I just saw one in the Computer History Museum.

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

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Post by staplung »

2ndorderthought wrote: post #6
vsgherzi wrote: 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

Have you tried Fresh? Has everything you listed and more

https://getfresh.dev/

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

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Post by pjmlp »

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…

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.

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

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Post by anta40 »

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…

>> 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"

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