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It’s somewhat disappointing that over the years the ecosystem[1] accumulated more emulators than substantial programs.

[1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/awesome-uxn

It's a testament to the quality/function of the existing types of ROMs available to uxn and the community that forms around it? Uxn type initiatives are forward-backward looking: how do I ensure future retro compatibility of software created going forward.

It's probably also an interesting challange to implement an emulator.

I was hoping that Uxn could eventually be a vehicle to get rich, graphical apps onto less popular operating systems, like Plan 9 (which they support). While their 1st-party roms are great, the wave of software never came.

I am not surprised as Unxtal is very low level and with lot of constraints. It looks more like some tool of demoscene than a practical programming platform.

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