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Writing Gameboy emulator is fun, just like writing a raytracer. And it can be nice way to learn a new language. Is there something special/different in this project compared to many others?

For me the most interesting GB emulation project is Mooneye due to being written in Rust and its emphasis on accuracy and documentation of GB hardware: https://github.com/Gekkio/mooneye-gb

My thoughts exactly. Being written in C++ isn't interesting enough on its own.

What about the implementation is interesting? Does it make heavy use of some new feature like coroutines, or something? It is supposed to be very elegant? What?

Does it have to be interesting to share? Writing a gameboy emulator is a fun and challenging project in and of itself, and something that not everyone can do. That alone I think is impressive enough to share.

Not everything has to be "look at what I did in the trendy language of the week".

The code is fairly easy to read.

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