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This week Ninji came up with an interesting story, which actually digs very deep into Classic Mac OS, compilers and emulation of the latter on modern systems.

To be able to produce software for the 68k variant of Mac OS on a modern system nowadays, you are left with emulators at first sight. But these limit you, if you want to use a modern code editor for example.

Ninji goes a completely different and super interesting way. With the help of the Unicorn CPU emulator, Rust and an own standard lib she/he brings old compilers to life on modern systems.

Mega impressive, especially when you assume that someone invests so much time for an such an edge case scenario. The project as well as the article about it are more than worth reading, but go much deeper than the otherwise often so common surface scratch.