I have written a JVM in Rust
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Lately I’ve been spending quite a bit of time learning Rust, and as any sane person would do, after writing a few 100 lines programs I’ve decided to take on something a little bit more ambitious: I have written a Java Virtual Machine in Rust. 🎉 With a lot of originality, I have called it rjvm. The code is available on GitHub. I want to stress that this is a toy JVM, built for learning purposes and not a serious implementation.
  • noeontheend ( noeontheend@beehaw.org ) English
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    3 years ago

    This is very impressive!

    I also love the sentiment expressed regarding completeness:

    Given that I have achieved what I set out to do originally, I have decided to stop the project here. I know there are bugs, but I do not plan to fix them.

    A long time ago, I read a similar idea. It was along the lines of “when you lose interest a project, that means that you’ve learned what you originally set out to learn from it, so it’s ok to stop.” (The original was, of course, phrased much more nicely.) I have a huge backlog of half-finished ideas, and this framing helped me feel much better about that. I’m glad to see another example of someone saying that even though more could be done, they’ve met the original goal, so they don’t plan to continue.