Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989

Posted by wojtczyk 5 hours ago

Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989(github.com)

34 points | 10 comments

rob74 1 hour ago|

Cool! I assume TRUST stands for "Turbo Rust"? If yes, maybe it would be worth mentioning that in the readme. I doubt that Embarcadero Technologies (the current owners of the Delphi and C++ Builder IDEs, and probably also the owners of other former Borland trademarks) would mind - but then again, it doesn't hurt to stay on the safe side...

weinzierl 52 minutes ago|

Random aside: Back in the day Microsoft used the "Quick" prefix and Borland used "Turbo". I am waiting for a QRUST.

gpderetta 35 minutes ago||

VisualRust

eithed 22 minutes ago||

Ah, Norton Commander takes me back

awhenderson 1 hour ago||

I haven't felt a lot of desire to code in Rust but I do now! Absolutely applaud this project - it's completely tugged on the retro nostalgia strings for my Turbo Pascal days. Also one of the reasons I enjoy the previously HN featured Microsoft Edit project immensely - https://github.com/microsoft/edit. Thank you OP

WiSaGaN 56 minutes ago||

Maybe I should start a project rewriting pctools 5.0 in rust!

kaant 3 hours ago||

Because Rust deserves a blue-screen IDE from the olden days and someone had to do this...

vsgherzi 1 hour ago|

Honestly the experience looks pretty nice. Which is crazy to say for such an old style of program but I kind of like it. Perhaps just nostalgia for a time I never got your experience.

2ndorderthought 1 hour ago||

I'm not mad at this at all. It probably runs with like 20kb if RAM.

I realize the author is probably just having fun, but if a few modern features added to this and I would probably try it.

Multi cursor, a little terminal window, some way to do code hints or intelligence. This would be a dream boat lol

q3k 43 minutes ago||

A year or so ago I spent half a day writing some Rust on an actual DEC glass teletype (VT520) connected to a Debian box. I used vim and shell job control (^Z, jobs, fg, etc.) to switch between tooling and a persistent text editor. It made me feel things.