Comment on Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989Comments−pjmlp4moWell not quite, unfortunely Rust still has a bit to catch up with 1989, it isn't only the Turbo Vision inspired IDE.https://ia801901.us.archive.org/5/items/TurboPascal55/Antiqu...Fast! Compiles 34, 000 lines of code per minutehttps://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandtur5.5Brochure1...Measured on a a IBM PS/2 Model 60, meaning an Intel 80286 running at 10 MHz with 640 KB for MS-DOS, up to 8 MB depending on extenders and HMA configurations.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PS/2_Model_60And if you feel using the language complexity excuse for 2026 hardware, see OCaml, Delphi, D, or C# AOT.−wojtczykOP4moThank you for the references!
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Well not quite, unfortunely Rust still has a bit to catch up with 1989, it isn't only the Turbo Vision inspired IDE.
https://ia801901.us.archive.org/5/items/TurboPascal55/Antiqu...
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandtur5.5Brochure1...
Measured on a a IBM PS/2 Model 60, meaning an Intel 80286 running at 10 MHz with 640 KB for MS-DOS, up to 8 MB depending on extenders and HMA configurations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PS/2_Model_60
And if you feel using the language complexity excuse for 2026 hardware, see OCaml, Delphi, D, or C# AOT.
Thank you for the references!