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

rob74•about 3 hours 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•about 2 hours ago

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

gpderetta•about 1 hour ago

VisualRust

awhenderson•about 2 hours 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

eithed•about 1 hour ago

Ah, Norton Commander takes me back

WiSaGaN•about 2 hours ago

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

sourcegrift•33 minutes ago

Embed nvim in the right pane!

kaant•about 4 hours ago

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

vsgherzi•about 3 hours 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•about 2 hours 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

boxed•5 minutes ago

https://github.com/boxed/TurboKod

I started this just for the lulz, but now I've got:

copy/paste/undo

multiple cursors

debuggers

syntax highlighting (even nested languages with jetbrains style comments!)

find-in-files

integrated documentation

integrated git client (roughly modeled after lazygit)

spell checking

and tons more that I can't even remember

q3k•about 1 hour 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.

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