chipper VS strum

Although it would be spoilers to look inside the files, you can look at my implentation how I chose to structure it. Its basically what u/schungx suggested

Funny enough that you mention something like the 8080. I know its on a smaller scale, but I actually did a Chip8 emulator in Rust which can be found here. This is the one project that I went all out on attempting to be both as idiomatic and easy to follow as possible in-case I ever go back to improve or add some things. It may be of interest to you as you would be able to see how idiomatic Rust can work while emulating hardware.

Here is my repo Chipper.

Link: https://github.com/Zij-IT/chipper

Take a look at the strum crate. https://crates.io/crates/strum

I would be use something like https://github.com/Peternator7/strum if I need map string to enum and serde is not the option.

Looks like proper support for this in strum has been proposed.

This crate can generate an iterator for you using a macro https://github.com/Peternator7/strum

The strum crate is also good for removing this kind of boilerplate, and worth checking out!

strum is among my favorite crates to recommend. Favorites of this crate include EnumProperty and EnumIter

I released my first crate that provides a derive macro to easily obtain a name of a current variant in an enum as a string. I did it mostly to learn about procedural macros and the process of releasing a crate. I then found out there is strum which does this and much more. Nonetheless, I learned a lot and I found couple of nice tools like ```cargo-release and git-cliff.

I used https://crates.io/crates/strum to iterate over the enum variants, otherwise you'd have to hardcode the list of variants and wouldn't gain anything.

If you chose to go with the "derive a trait" route the strum crate might be what you're looking for. It lets you use derive to add information about variant count, discriminants or even iterators over variants to an enum.

You might want something like strum