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Re:RustBoyAdvance-NG: GameBoy Advance emulator and debugger,... by Nvorzula on Sunday May 03, 2020 @01:02PM (#23060258)
Of course there is academic interesting (as in, I wrote an emulator in BASH and it actually kinda works) and there is practical interesting (I got the emulator to be 3% faster).

The Rust community really has an interest in showing the world that it is a serious candidate to replace C++. That's why we see a preponderance of "this same problem, but solved in Rust" - they're providing another data point to show that Rust can work in a problem space that had previously been the sole domain of C/C++. In that regard, I would think it interesting.

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Re:RustBoyAdvance-NG: GameBoy Advance emulator and debugger,... by pjmlp on Sunday May 03, 2020 @01:16PM (#23060373)
Case in point, had I not had the fortune of having access to Native Oberon during the university, I would also be an anti-GC voice.

Instead I learned what Oberon allowed me to do, got to dive into the history of programming language research at Xerox PARC, and became a firm believer in GC enabled systems programming languages.

Programming languages landscape lacks dreamers like Alan Kay or Jobs, apparently many only believe in stuff that is demoed in front of them and even if proven wrong, they only care if they can take immediate profit from it and not 5 years down the road.

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