I've made a Game Boy emulator using Rust, React and WebAssembly

[joamag]

https://boytacean.joao.me/

[joamag]

GitHub repo here https://github.com/joamag/boytacean

[ineedausername → joamag]

Gonna dig this. Cool. Why Rust btw?

[joamag → ineedausername]

Mostly because:

1- Elegant programming language

2- It's fast, like native fast :)

3- Memory safety features

4- Web Assembly (WASM) target

[ineedausername → joamag]

Most emus i found are in C. Writing it in Rust is a good way to learn the lang too i guess, it's become quite a popular lang lately, unexpectedly for me.

[banimurit]

Nice! Any advice for someone wanting to start developing an emulator?

[nimutir]

Looking great! How much time did it take to build it?

[joamag → nimutir]

It took me around 4 weeks to build the initial emulation code for the DMG Game Boy. Since then I've been working from time to time on improving the structure of the emulator and the Web interface. You can take a look at the code here https://github.com/joamag/boytacean

[sinuritori]

It looks awesome, congrats!

[joamag → sinuritori]

Thanks!