As a game developer myself, two people working on Cemu while the next generation of open source emulation are still trying to figure things out years after their conception is becoming more of a joke than anything.
I have no disrespect for any on-going developments and I am not a programmer myself but I do see patterns in each development cycle.
In the past year alone Cemu has made far more progress and likely earns less than what Patreon states and the devs are likely not able to live off of that as a full-time job.
Compare that to Citra, Decaf and Xenia where you rarely see anyone reporting it online and I myself have seen a lack of commits.
RPCS3 and Nucelus aren't even mentioned anymore until some big game is shown off which hardly works at all or crashes badly.
For the longest time, I have been wondering what is going on with Decaf Wii U Emulation and it seems to progress slowly with more people working on it.
The sheer fact two people are working on a closed source Cemu project and haven't shared their knowledge proves they know what they are doing seeing as how there isn't a copy-paste war going on and from what I have been keeping up on, many devs borrow and copy from one-another.
I've seen the debate of open source vs closed source and results show that closed source keeps the copy-cats from potentially candy-wrapping viruses people are likely to gobble up in seconds.
Kudos to the devs of Cemu for that.
Honestly, I think the two are proving their merit and developing the first emulator that actually plays games than those who are still trying to pick up the pace.
The idiots lurking in this thread are obviously pirates and immature brats who have no idea what the word 'development' even means and flaunt their incoherent knowledge around like they own the place.
Let this be a lesson that hard work is appreciated and often undermined by selfish mongrels who care only for themselves.
Sociopaths are good at biting the hand that feeds them but couldn't find the food if they tried.
Also, this entire thread could use a massive Troll Genocide of mass proportions... seriously over 600 pages of less than information?
Get real and stop feeding the damn Trolls, they just keep getting uglier and worse.
I may be a skeptic but Exzap and his devs get my condolences of hard work and effort, this crap isn't easy and they do what no-one else can do unless otherwise proven.
So Trolls, if you can do better go code your own damn Cemu clone and prove you are better or get the hell out of here and leave your inhumanity out of the picture.
I must say I find it rather laughable that you scorn at those who take for granted the work that has thus far gone into Cemu, only to denigrate the hard work that has gone into other projects by referring to it as a 'joke'. Indeed, immaturity can be seen throughout this thread, but it's hard to take the high ground when you make farcical generalisations such as claiming that they're 'pirates'. Yes, I'm sure they're baby-killers as well.
Also, it is simply naive to judge open source projects by the frequency of commits, or even by their publicity. Different projects and different developers take different approaches to managing their Git repos. In the case of Citra, changes are often made to forks before being submitted as a pull request, which is publicly scrutinised before being merged into the main project. Or alternatively, Git commits may be made locally before being pushed in large chunks. And whilst yes, Cemu may appear to show greater publicity than other emulators at this time, that does not mean development has ceased. Different platforms have different architectures that each present their own challenges when creating an emulator. It just so happens that the Wii U uses both hardware and software that are relatively well-documented and well-understood, and hence progress has moved forward rapidly. But I'm certain you already knew all of this as a game developer yourself.
As for the Decaf project, what are you talking about? Like Cemu, there are only two main developers, exjam and brett19, who each have jobs and yet still manage to pour in significant amounts of work in as can be seen by your beloved commit log
https://github.com/decaf-emu/decaf-emu/commits/master. Additionally, Exzap has noted himself that Cemu has been in development for some time prior to its public release, so it's hard to take seriously phrases such as 'pick up the pace' when Cemu has had a head start.
Finally, with regard to these viruses, I'd love to see these 'results' you speak of. Closed source programs are a black box. They may have a virus, they may not. Who could know? Virus scanners don't always detect everything. At least open source programs provide an opportunity for a much wider audience to inspect the code for malicious contents. Closed-source programs require innumerable hours of careful scanning through assembly instructions that the majority of people simply do not have, or lack the skills to do so. That's not to say Cemu contains any viruses, I'm very doubtful that it does, however it is difficult to know this for certain.
Cemu has indeed made remarkable progress over these past few months, and I applaud Exzap and Petergov who each have each done a splendid job in achieving what they have. However, pretending everything is faultless is just as deplorable as claiming it is completely flawed.