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I’m saying it’s not optimal for learning the language, not that it’s not worth doing. I’ve worked on 3 different emulators for fun over the last few years, my f
by namuol 1y ago
I’m saying it’s not optimal for learning the language, not that it’s not worth doing. I’ve worked on 3 different emulators for fun over the last few years, my first in rust. It was a bad experience for learning rust because I was following prior art which relied heavily on shared data structures and lots of poking randomly at blocks of RAM, a very natural way to think when you’re engrossed in the mechanics of an 8-bit CPU.
I had a better time writing a raycaster and later a path tracer, although by then I had learned to avoid dealing with the borrow checker…