IRIS — Irresponsible Rust IRIX Simulator: SGI Indy Emulator Written with AI Help
Summary
The GitHub project IRIS — Irresponsible Rust IRIX Simulator is an SGI Indy emulator built in Rust with AI assistance from Claude and Gemini. It can boot IRIX 6.5 and 5.3, includes a Cranelift-based MIPS JIT and an optional REX3 graphics JIT, and features a copy-on-write disk overlay and headless mode for CI. The post illustrates practical AI-assisted software development and collaborative coding on a niche hardware emulator.