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>although Rust is cross-platform, I don’t have a Windows machine to develop on... Well, Windows VMs aren't hard to come by and they work quite well on any host

>although Rust is cross-platform, I don’t have a Windows machine to develop on... Well, Windows VMs aren't hard to come by and they work quite well on any host platform (contrarily to some other OSes coughMacOScough) A native windows version would be interesting, though I believe people generally shun any prolonged interactive use the windows command line, this kind of tool might be one of the possible remedies against the pain of using it.

cytzol 9y ago
To the credit of both Microsoft and the Rust team, Windows has become a much easier platform to develop on than when that sentence was written!
burntsushi 9y ago
As a maintainer of a CLI program in Rust that runs on Windows, it is mostly a pretty nice experience. The only painful part was getting colors working in both MSYS terminals and cmd/PowerShell based terminals. I do have a Windows 7 VM setup for testing, but I also bought a cheap Windows 10 laptop to test on as well.
- thecrazyone 9y ago
  You should probably write to exa developer, no? Perhaps, help out a fellow tool developer to bring the goodness of your tools to us devs on Windows? :)
  - burntsushi 9y ago
    It's available as a library: https://docs.rs/termcolor/0.3.2/termcolor/ https://docs.rs/termcolor/0.3.2/termcolor/
thecrazyone 9y ago
The developer in me jumps with joy when the existence of (us poor) devs on Windows is acknowledged and gosh, even prioritized ("no v1.0 before windows"). I'm a fan for you just saying that! PS: I develop on Windows