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

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Post by rho_soul_kg_m3 »

3836293648 wrote: post #36

This needs to have DOS builds available. Is it performant enough for 90s hardware? I know the rust compiler itself isn't really.

I think one of the earlier OCaml versions of the Rust compiler would be lean enough to be usable on a mid-90's PC.

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

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Post by sourcegrift »

wojtczyk wrote: post #24
weinzierl wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Of course a pole would love it! (Only mean it positively:-) )

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

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Post by wojtczyk »

anta40 wrote: post #43

Just noticed in cannot build a standalone Rust source file "error: could not find 'Cargo.toml'" I assume first need to create a project by "cargo new" ...? Anyway, love the good ol' Turbo Pascal 7 Reference. Haven't touch it for more than 1 decade.

Thanks for letting me know. I shall add that.

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

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Post by wojtczyk »

anta40 wrote: post #40
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"

Right, we can appreciate a lot of the heavy weight lifting by the compiler or blazing fast translations... in the latter case an assembler would do

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

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Post by wojtczyk »

ahartmetz wrote: post #39
AbuAssar wrote: post #15

nice (and clever) name!

I actually expected an unsafe-only Rust because of the name and the "archaic" date (of course, "safe" languages did exist at the time, if not low-level and safe ones). Still, cool project.

unsafe-only Rust ... good idea!

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

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Post by joshka »

wojtczyk wrote: post #46
0rbiter wrote: post #23

The window screenshots are clearly from macOS 26, the rounded corners look so broken. If Rust ran in DosBox, we would have the perfect 1989 emulator.

Thanks for the feedback, maybe I'll redo the screenshots

I recommend VHS generally for these (we use them for all the ratatui screenshots generally). I'm also playing around with doing a rust version of this (https://www.joshka.net/betamax/)
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