mega65-adventure VS rust-mos

What are you on about, can you clarify? Rust can compile in no-std/embedded style just as fine (or better) than C can for basically any ARM or RISCV based processor, and quick googling shows this hal for nearly all pi needs and even MEGA65 is "as supported" (read: not at all officially by anything, fan-only) as any current C compiler. Setting up rust for a new target, so long as the code-gen is supported somehow by LLVM, LLVM plugin, LLVM IR transpiler (and maybe libgcc-jit sort of soon) is just as painful or unpainful as setting up a whole team to work via C/C++ with comparable testing harnesses. This doesn't mean easy and is an area Rust is still improving rapidly by the various enterprise agencies (Ferrous systems, Oxide, more I can't remember...) who specifically want to bring rust to such low end hardware because frankly both C and C++ suck with vendor proprietary tool chains and quirks.

For Commodore the computer, there is a Rust and LLVM fork for MOS:

- https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos

It's able to generate binaries that are executed on C64. Tried it on the

rust the compiler, hell no.

But there is an llvm-mos project to generate 6502 code and that can be used to cross compile rust code.

https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Welcome

https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Rust

https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos

It was possible thanks to great https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Welcome project (it adds 6502 target to LLVM). Adding 6502 support to rust was easy part :] https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos

This is a super fun project to play around with. I'm currently trying to build a C64 sprite multiplexer in mostly straight C++ using LLVM-MOS and while it's definitely not going to be the most optimized multiplexer out there, I'm finding it most adequate performance-wise.

Whereas it's probably a long way away from being able to use this for democoding due to the mostly cycle-accurate nature of the effects, for creating homebrew games and utilities this is really quite suitable: write high-level logic and sprinkle in some inline assembly here and there for the really performance critical parts.

The code that is being generated is already quite good and (on first glance) looks better than what's coming out of cc65, for instance.

There's also rust-mos which uses LLVM-MOS to compile Rust code. It unfortunately still has some issues (e.g. [1]) but that is looking really promising as well.

Kudos to all involved :)

[1] https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos/issues/16

The MEGA 65 doesn't appear to have shipped yet. The best data I could find is the MEGA 65 is based on a "GS4510". The "GS4510" is compatible with a "4502", which in turn is compatible with the 65CE02. The 65CE02 uses a different manufacturing process but the same ISA as the 6502, which is supported by rust-mos and lvm-mos](https://github.com/llvm-mos/llvm-mos).

Using llvm-mos, rust-mos, a lot of time compiling compilers and support from Mariusz (the rust-mos author), I was finally able to program like it was 1982...

This fork is handy for that. It’s fun to play with, but you need to do a decent amount yourself to get it set up.

https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos

Thanks to llvm-mos project there is also working rust fork for MOS-6502: https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos/tree/mos_target, so you can target 8-bit atari and c64