Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
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Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
#2The idea of running Rust code on Windows 95 is very funny to me. Two completely different universes colliding.
Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
#3I wish more languages support old platforms. I'm working in a company and a lot of our customers are running Windows 7 and 8, few of them running Vista. I have to use ancient versions of development tools to target those. For example stuck on Java 8 for eternity. It's PITA.
Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
#4The idea of running Rust code on Windows 95 is very funny to me. Two completely different universes colliding.
IIRC, somebody ran .NET on Windows 3.1.
Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
#5An interesting bit of history: for a long time Rust maintained first party support for Windows XP, after other parts of ecosystem generally gave up. This was because Firefox needed it.
https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/378 (major change proposal to drop Windows XP support) notes this history and links to other relevant pages.
Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
#6I wish more languages support old platforms. I'm working in a company and a lot of our customers are running Windows 7 and 8, few of them running Vista. I have to use ancient versions of development tools to target those. For example stuck on Java 8 for eternity. It's PITA.
It's not hard to do either, especially on Windows where backwards-compatibility is almost completely guaranteed.
Of course those in the planned obsolescence mindset would fight hard against it, because then it would be harder for us to take the good without the bad.
Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
#7The idea of running Rust code on Windows 95 is very funny to me. Two completely different universes colliding.
IIRC, somebody ran .NET on Windows 3.1.
I think it was Windows 95: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUMNtKQLl8
Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
#8considering the all-insistence of rust on using internet for all the libraries, this doesn't seem like a good idea...
Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
#9The idea of running Rust code on Windows 95 is very funny to me. Two completely different universes colliding.
IIRC, somebody ran .NET on Windows 3.1.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22010159
3.11, Win32s (so still using 32-bit, not 16-bit code.)
Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
#10considering the all-insistence of rust on using internet for all the libraries, this doesn't seem like a good idea...
What do you mean? Cargo downloads packages from the internet by default programs do exactly what they’re programmed to do. No more and no less.
Just because you’re targeting windows xp doesn’t mean you need to run windows xp to do development.