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Great project! But other than it being 'written in Rust' can someone explain what is interesting about yet another Gameboy Advance emulator using SDL2? I'm guessing its WASM support?

I think we're all capitalising on the HN algorithm gearing towards Rust-related posts which can only be a great thing for those who absolutely love Rust <3. Perhaps I should be a town crier for the Rust project to market all things Rust.

𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷! 𝔄𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱 ℜ𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔧𝔢𝔠𝔱!

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I have been long enough on HN to have seen that pattern with CoffeeScript, Clojure, Scala, Ruby, Go, Elixir,....

Now excuse me while I get back to selling shovels.

I notice the same thing happen with other languages on HN. What I find interesting is that Rust seems to always get some variation of the comment: “why is this interesting, this has already been done in other languages”.

I don’t know why the hate, but I would say HN is a community with a lot of developers, and if things are getting voted up, it’s because many of the folks on here might have enjoyed seeing the post/article/project.

Because porting to another langugage is rarely interesting unless there's a performance or resource usage win. For example, if all of wc, ls, grep etc were ported to Rust and they ran far more quickly, that'd be post worthy.

Someone compiled linux with a C++ compiler a few months ago and the compiler found a few bugs. That was interesting and useful.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/1/116

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.

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.

I think ports to other languages are interesting even if there aren’t practical performance gains. Rust is cool. Other languages are cool too. X, but in Y is cool, at least cool enough to glance at.

What would the shovel be in this case? LLVM?

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, as Wirth puts it.

It just sounds like you think everything that existed before you started programming is good and useful and everything after is a fad.

On the contrary, I have a couple of decades of experience seeing technologies coming and go, like Alan Kay puts it, IT is a fashion industry.

So always take a critic view on whatever is on the cover of IT Vogue.

> 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷! 𝔄𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱 ℜ𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔧𝔢𝔠𝔱!

What the hell are those? I looked at each letter (Unicode 1D5{12,36,22,37}), and apparently it spells out Oyez?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyez

Oyez (/oʊˈjɛz/, /oʊˈjeɪ/, /oʊˈjɛs/, more rarely with the word stress at the beginning) is a traditional interjection said two or three times in succession to introduce the opening of a court of law, especially in Great Britain. The interjection is also traditionally used by town criers to attract the attention of the public to public proclamations.

It's French in origin, FYI.

yes it is

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyez?wprov=sfla1

Oyez means “Here ye!” Town criers used to say it.

"Listen!" is a better translation.

Edit: Maybe you meant 'hear' not 'here'.

Apparently this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EyveyqLQKDg

Thank you for pointing it out, even though I'm French I read it as "Onez! Onez!", I thought it was meant to be 1337speak.

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