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I wouldn't trust these numbers too much. Pretty sure Windows XP usage remains far more than 3% in India and China.

by jedisct1 8y ago

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coldtea 8y ago
And those Indians and Chinese running XP rely on Go apps on their desktop OS?
- akerl_ 8y ago
  You make it sound like it's crazy to want to run a Golang application on your desktop. Do you actually believe it's far-fetched for a user to have an app that's written in Go?
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  - AlphaSite 8y ago
    People don’t do it atm and there’s an argument to be made that supporting legacy OSes in future version of your language is a folly. If there was a huge base of go apps for legacy OSes then I’d see your point but there isn’t.
  - pknopf 8y ago
    It's not far-fetched, but I'd hate for the tools that I use to be anchored on such old/outed systems. I'm sure ie6/8 is still used somewhat in those countries as well. Should jQuery/React support them? You have to move on at some point. I'm sure India and China deal with issues similar to this across the board. They are used to it. They've coped. For example, there is a React clone that supports ie8 (forgot the name). Let them do what they do.
overcast 8y ago
Pretty sure the vast majority of those are illegal copies of Windows as well.
cpeterso 8y ago
When Firefox dropped support for Windows XP and Vista last year, about 10% of all Firefox users were still running XP or Vista. In China, I think XP was almost 20%. You can see the big shift of Windows version share on this Firefox telemetry graph after dropping XP support: https://hardware.metrics.mozilla.com/#goto-os-and-architecture https://hardware.metrics.mozilla.com/#goto-os-and-architectu... To be clear, Mozilla dropped support for XP and Vista in Firefox's regular "rapid release" channel; XP and Vista users were migrated to the Firefox ESR channel in March 2017 and will continue to receive ESR security updates until this September. Microsoft ended support for XP in 2014 and support for Vista in 2017. Chrome dropped support in 2016. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-windows-xp-and-vista https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-windows-xp-...

I wouldn't trust these numbers too much. Pretty sure Windows XP usage remains far more than 3% in India and China.

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coldtea 8y ago

And those Indians and Chinese running XP rely on Go apps on their desktop OS?

akerl_ 8y ago
You make it sound like it's crazy to want to run a Golang application on your desktop. Do you actually believe it's far-fetched for a user to have an app that's written in Go?
- deleted 8y ago
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- AlphaSite 8y ago
  People don’t do it atm and there’s an argument to be made that supporting legacy OSes in future version of your language is a folly. If there was a huge base of go apps for legacy OSes then I’d see your point but there isn’t.
- pknopf 8y ago
  It's not far-fetched, but I'd hate for the tools that I use to be anchored on such old/outed systems. I'm sure ie6/8 is still used somewhat in those countries as well. Should jQuery/React support them? You have to move on at some point. I'm sure India and China deal with issues similar to this across the board. They are used to it. They've coped. For example, there is a React clone that supports ie8 (forgot the name). Let them do what they do.

overcast 8y ago

Pretty sure the vast majority of those are illegal copies of Windows as well.

cpeterso 8y ago

When Firefox dropped support for Windows XP and Vista last year, about 10% of all Firefox users were still running XP or Vista. In China, I think XP was almost 20%. You can see the big shift of Windows version share on this Firefox telemetry graph after dropping XP support: https://hardware.metrics.mozilla.com/#goto-os-and-architecture https://hardware.metrics.mozilla.com/#goto-os-and-architectu... To be clear, Mozilla dropped support for XP and Vista in Firefox's regular "rapid release" channel; XP and Vista users were migrated to the Firefox ESR channel in March 2017 and will continue to receive ESR security updates until this September. Microsoft ended support for XP in 2014 and support for Vista in 2017. Chrome dropped support in 2016. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-windows-xp-and-vista https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-windows-xp-...