https://panel-panic.com https://larsdu.github.io/Dippy6502/

The issue is... I barely know the language. There are vast gaps in my knowledge (e.g. lifetimes, lifetime elison, dynamic dispatch, Box, Ref, Arc, all that)

Nor do I know much of anything about the 6502 microprocessor. I know even less from having the LLM one shot most of the project rather than grinding through it myself.

So in the age of AI, the question of how easy it is to write with a language may be less important than the question of how we should go about reading code.

Quite honestly, I don't really know why I wouldn't use Rust for a wide variety of projects with AI other than the compile/iteration time for larger projects. The compiler and static typing provide tremendously useful feedback and guardrails for LLM based programming. The use of structs and traits rather than OOP prevent a lot of long term architectural disasters by design. Deployment on the web can be done with WASM. Performance is out-of-the-box?

Writing Rust by hand though? I'm still terrible at it.