Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989
43 points by wojtczyk 7 hours ago | 14 comments
rob74 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...
replymonadgonad 18 minutes ago
Staying on the safe side would be not confirming whether it stands for Turbo Rust or not. "You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment."
replyweinzierl 2 hours ago
Random aside: Back in the day Microsoft used the "Quick" prefix and Borland used "Turbo". I am waiting for a QRUST.
replygpderetta 2 hours ago
VisualRust
replyawhenderson 3 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
replykaant 5 hours ago
Because Rust deserves a blue-screen IDE from the olden days and someone had to do this...
replyvsgherzi 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.
reply2ndorderthought 3 hours ago
I'm not mad at this at all. It probably runs with like 20kb if RAM.
replyI 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 24 minutes ago
https://github.com/boxed/TurboKod
replyI 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