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What's your favorite "What the FUCK were they smoking when they designed this?" moment?

Many people are very angry that you used Rust. Did you expect this choice to cause such an uproar?

To add on top this, the author wrote multiple blog posts on their setup [0, 1, 2]. The project itself is hosted at https://github.com/dbalsom/arduinoX86

[0]: https://martypc.blogspot.com/2023/06/hardware-validating-emu...

[1]: https://martypc.blogspot.com/2023/05/exploring-dma-on-ibm-pc...

[2]: https://martypc.blogspot.com/2023/10/bus-sniffing-ibm-5150.h...

All my friends had Soundblasters; I had a self soldered Covox. Fun times.

But Soundblaster came with Adlib, so surely complete support for SB should mean Adlib support as well.. ?

I've built out a full keyboard-remapping system, to support any keyboard layout. I need help building these files.

Are you using DVORAK? If you are willing to help, please open a Github issue with some info about your keyboard, and I'll build support for it.

But it's written in Rust! Who cares about non-qwerty!

/s

That's keyboard code [1] vs. Keyboard key [2].

[1] Physical location of a key https://w3c.github.io/uievents/#keys-codevalues

[2] Mapping of a key https://w3c.github.io/uievents/#keys-keyvalues

The naming is terrible and I have to look it up every single time

What keyboard layout are you using? I can't reproduce on a US layout.

I don't think Backspace as a key was standard internationally until 1994. Apple still doesn't use it, just Delete.

Old terminals had this shenanigans going on too. Backspace was not backspace and so on

IBMulator has HDD sounds: https://www.ibmulator.org/

What would you say is missing or not working well?

I used to have a phone like that.

When I started writing MartyPC over four years ago, writing an emulator in Rust was still somewhat novel. The development of the 'egui' immediate-mode graphics framework made it possible to make one with an advanced interactive debugger.

By mentioning Rust people have been able to more easily find MartyPC as an example of how (or how not to) write an emulator in Rust.

Perhaps the tag as outlived its usefulness, especially if people find it pompous or something. I'm not trying to be Rust cultist, I swear.

I suppose it makes a change from complaining that the post was written by an LLM.

What's great about Egatrek?

Oh, holy crap. I haven't thought about EGATREK in at least 30 years. I'm going to go dig it up right now. Thanks for causing me to recall that memory!

"Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273175

but I see your point.

I believe a true engineer should love problems not only languages. But it seems like majority of Rust devs only love the language and try to convert all the problems into Rust problems.

If you have problems in C/C++? Write Rust.

If you have problems in Python? Use Rust.

If you have an issue with your product? Rewrite it in Rust.

Is your company in pinch? Launch a new product in Rust.

If you burn your finger while you’re cooking? Write Rust.

If you have a mental problem? Read a Rust book.

You don’t have a girl friend? You have Rust next to you.

If you hate yourself? Writing Rust will solve your life problems.

Because people love to propagandize

The main feature of apps written in Rust is that they are written in Rust.

Because their following is not cult-based.

(To clarify: I like Rust. I use it every day. But this is going too far.)

Because they predate HN, and aren't hip languages any longer.

There was a time for CoffeeScript, PureScript, Elm, Ruby and whatever else you can think of.

Naturally Lisp has to have monthly entries.

/s

Because nowadays "written in Rust" means "written by AI", as Java or C are not so sexy for LLMs /s

Early PCs were made of steel which can rust

In C neither, despite urban myths.

When I started this emulator four years ago, this was the first PC emulator written in Rust so it was novel.

I've heard the comments here loud and clear :) You all don't think Rust is novel anymore and I should lose that bit.

"cross-platform" and Rust, as advertised in the current title/link label, is incompatible for sure. Can't get that to run on my older OS X machine nor my Amiga. :)