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by deaddodo 613 days ago
I feel like "modern" is kind of a misnomer in emulators when used like this. When I hear "modern" I expect "better accuracy/emulation speed" not "a new window kit". Especially since this emulator has decidedly less features than most "ancient" (but mature) emulators.

That being said, it's always good to see new contributions to the emudev scene and your project seems well developed. Keep at it!

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The term "modern" could be editorialization. It appears nowhere in the README and doesn't seem to be how the project describes itself.

(But, on the other hand, the repo appears to date from 2020. I can't deny this is unambiguously in the past, but perhaps it's recent enough to qualify.)

As far as I am aware, higan/byuu already achieved accurate emulation with no known bugs.
Anything written in Rust is "modern". (:
ratatui in particular seems like a fine piece of work (I'm currently at a Rust shop and expect to use it a bit going forward).
People indeed have different definitions of subjective terms than others... I think it's secretly the source of a large amount of disagreements in the world.
Spot on. The number of times me and spouse resolved arguments by realizing we dont share common definitions have been eye opening for us both.
"Modern" and "beautiful" are major red flag words in our current software dystopia. It always means "we ripped off VSCode and removed 90% of the functionality you want"