I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
11 points by veqq
11 points by veqq
Writing a GameBoy emulator is one of the projects on my todo list. The presentation here is great with a slew of references and makes me want to take the plunge to do it.
I just really like F#. I used to work primarily in F# at my previous company, and so I’m always looking for an excuse to keep on using it.
First of all, I’d like to apologise to the functional programming purists.
The language does feel like a cheat code and I've had an absolute blast learning it. I've been hearing people lament the death of the fun of programming and this quirky tool has me loving programming again like when I got tossed into Ruby. The libs of .NET and a bit of ML-ness, crossed with enough impurity to make it quick and easy to get things done right. A local successful business had built entirely on F# and beloved by the team, but then leadership changed and made them switch to C#.