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kibwen on Feb 9, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: An NES emulator written in Rust

Note that this project includes a makefile, though Rust will be moving away from make and friends entirely once the new rustpkg tool is merged:

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/4610

Independence from external build tools is one of the coolest features of Go, so I'm really excited about seeing more languages take this route.

gnuvince on Feb 10, 2013 [–]

Oh, that's really cool, I didn't know they had this project in the pipe. I agree that bundling tools with the compiler is such a great idea; a build tool built specifically for the language can assume so much more and do so much more, it's a net win.

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