Hacking Homebrew [Release] libnds-rs - Rust for the Nintendo DS

[Pikachuk]

Hey everyo

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I've recently been working on porting rust to the nintendo DS for one of my projects.
I ended up getting it working so I felt like releasing it publicly for everyone.
you will need to have devkitpro installed with your environment variables set to use it.
https://github.com/SeleDreams/libnds-rs

at the moment this is a wip, so homebrews made with it will compile and run on the DS, however, only an unsafe access to the raw rapper of the C api is available. I plan to work on providing a safe wrapper that is more natural to use from rust
I hope this will be useful to others

 

[yoooblls]

Hey what's rust btw

 

[Pikachuk]

Hey what's rust btw

A programming language

 

[orangy57]

Super cool! Really interesting to see a such a new programming language on such an old console. Is the memory overhead any different compared to C/C++?

 

[Pikachuk]

Super cool! Really interesting to see a such a new programming language on such an old console. Is the memory overhead any different compared to C/C++?

Rust is compiled to native code and doesn't have garbage collection, so it's pretty equivalent

 

[Jayro]

Hey what's rust btw

It's a game on Steam:

 

[yoooblls]

It's a game on Steam:
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It's a game on Steam:

Bro what it's 1000 pesos

 

[Nikokaro]

With all the care and attention I lavish on it, the last thing I want is to have damn rust on my beloved DS Lite.

 

[yoooblls]

With all the care and attention I lavish on it, the last thing I want is to have damn rust on my beloved DS Lite.

Idk I think halo is better

 

[Nikokaro]

Idk I think halo is better

What? Mine was a joke, a play on words. I was referring to real rust, which forms on iron by oxidation. Instead, I do not understand this reference to Halo, which if I am not mistaken is an FPS game, impossible on DS.

 

[yoooblls]

What? Mine was a joke, a play on words. I was referring to real rust, which forms on iron by oxidation. Instead, I do not understand this reference to Halo, which if I am not mistaken is an FPS game, impossible on DS.

Ik but for me halo is better than rust no offense