MAME Future plans announcement
It is rare that the MAME Team addresses the community with news of this magnitude, and we want to approach this moment with the transparency and care it deserves. What follows is a candid account of where this project stands, where it is going, and why the decisions we have made — difficult as some of them are — represent the most responsible path forward for a codebase that has grown into one of the most complex preservation efforts in the history of open-source software.
This surely must be an April Fools joke.
Definitely seems to be, especially this part about insisting everyone run a recent version of windows because of the AI-assisted toolchain… to develop MAME. Lol
Damn I should have read more carefully and not skipping over it 😂
I definitely do not blame you. It’s so full of “inside baseball” I wasn’t sure if it was a joke either! Ha
lolol I saw this on April 2nd so I figured...eh, too late to post. Gottem' haha.
TL;DR They are migrating the codebase to Rust, and mandating AI code reviews, and that’s that.
Do with that what you will.