Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

Post by LtdJorge » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 4:35 AM UTC

andai wrote: post #134

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> - I don't think Claude Code is using the Rust version yet in their official build No, I'm pretty sure it is, actually, since June 17: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog#2-1-181 >> Upgraded the bundled Bun runtime to 1.4 Now, Bun 1.4 doesn't seem to officially exist on https://bun.com/blog or https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases , so I can't be 100% sure this is the Rust version. However, I have to do some…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609168 https://grigio.org/bun-1-4-the-controversial-ai-driven-rewri... > 13,044 unsafe blocks in the resulting Rust code (hand-written Rust projects of similar size average ~73) Grok is this true? I've heard the meme that AI written rust code is absurdly full and safe blocks but... that's pretty funny. Hang on. A claim like that can be verified with a single grep! Give me a minu…

Post by lelandfe » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 4:48 AM UTC

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Right? All Fable did was a ported an already cross platform project to ios. Does not look like any sort of heavy lifting there, opus 4.6 would do just fine

I read this and laugh a bit because just 7 months ago the bar was so much lower and now we go "well duh of course it was able to make a working ios app from a game made 20 years ago... a game that was made 3 years before the first iPhone"

Post by gf263 » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 4:54 AM UTC

tangenter wrote: post #162

I think the next 10 years or so are going to see a chucklefuck of games reversed thanks to LLMs, which can easily pattern match and operate on contrivedely optimized assembly and output reasonably accurate C/C++ code. I’m one of many right now using Ghidra + LLM workflow. It’s doing the thing it needs to and I’ve helped several communities revive and port their games this way. It is a huge time saver. While I’d perso…

Post by didibus » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 5:00 AM UTC

general_reveal wrote: post #135

Eufrat wrote: post #42

IMHO, this is an actual good use of what sounds like a person guiding a model to do a mass conversion. Although, I wish the porting docs were a little wordsmithed by a human, the AI generated text style is grating. The stakes are low, it’s mostly for fun and you can iterate on it. Compare this with Bun which was just like, “hey we converted everything to Bun to Rust from Zig, of course it works, what could possibly g…

IMHO, this is an actual good use of what sounds like a person guiding a model to do a mass conversion. This is quite the understatement. Actually, it's probably the understatement of the year. "Pretty good, not bad, great use case". Dude. Fable fucking did what ?

Post by tomalbrc » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 5:03 AM UTC

didibus wrote: post #176

Diff of the changes Fable added to the parent fork (which does not appear to have used AI): https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/compare... for those curious.