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Maybe the makers of Crystal need to take a leaf out of Go's book. Despite the Go creators not being windows users (AFAIK), they support Windows as a primary ta
by kristianp 10y ago
Maybe the makers of Crystal need to take a leaf out of Go's book. Despite the Go creators not being windows users (AFAIK), they support Windows as a primary target, to help adoption, I assume.
Of course the Crystal people probably don't have the same number of developers working on it as Go did even early on.
Edit: Go took a little while to support windows, not until around July 2010. See this question from November 2009:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1717652/can-go-compiler-be-installed-on-windows http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1717652/can-go-compiler-b...
- pyed 10y agoWindows support was implemented by the community, Not the creators.
- spoiler 10y agoCrystal supported Windows (albeit unofficially, and it was an epic adventure to compile it, and I've never tried running any serious code on it), however all support practically ceased when it switched from libpcl to inline ASM for coroutines.
- RX14 10y agoThe plan is to support windows before 1.0, although the core devs are reluctant to "open up" to the large amount of developers windows support would bring before they are finished making breaking changes.
- rogerdpack 10y agoI don't think they're afraid of it, more like haven't gotten around to it would be my guess...
- naviix 10y agonot to take away from the point you're trying to make, but i just installed it on windows 10 with the latest update that included bash. felt nice.