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Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

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Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

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Post by vips7L »

vbezhenar wrote: post #3

I 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.

I’m a huge Java fan, modern versions are amazing, but being stuck on 8 is the only time I’d recommend just using Kotlin or Scala and compiling to v8 byte code. 8 is just a miserable experience.

Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

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Post by asimovDev »

vbezhenar wrote: post #3

I 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.

seeing Windows 8 called old really did some psychic damage to me. If it's not a secret, what kind of customers do you have? Is it some industrial stuff as usual?

Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

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Post by gspr »

NooneAtAll3 wrote: post #8

considering the all-insistence of rust on using internet for all the libraries, this doesn't seem like a good idea...

What insistence? I do 99% of my Rust development with this ~/.cargo/config.toml:

  [net]
  offline = true
  
  [source]
  
  [source.crates-io]
  replace-with = "debian"
  
  [source.debian]
  directory = "/usr/share/cargo/registry"
Works great.

Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

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Post by grishka »

vbezhenar wrote: post #3

I 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.

The way some language runtimes have dropped support for Windows 7 feels outright malicious.

Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

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Post by archargelod »

vbezhenar wrote: post #3

I 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.

Languages that compile to C (e.g. Nim) are great on older systems. If a system has a working C compiler (or cross-compiler), there’s a good chance that it’ll just work.

I’ve myself compiled Nim on Windows 7, Windows XP, and Haiku, and have run simple Nim programs on the C64 and GameBoy Advance.

Re: Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

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Post by vbezhenar »

asimovDev wrote: post #15
vbezhenar wrote: post #3

I 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.

seeing Windows 8 called old really did some psychic damage to me. If it's not a secret, what kind of customers do you have? Is it some industrial stuff as usual?

Medicine. I'm living in third world country and probably they don't have enough money to upgrade often, they just install something and work with it for many years. Works for them, I guess, I often see computers with 2-4 GB RAM and some ancient Celeron.
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