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It lacks first-class Windows support. That's it. That's why it fails to gain the traction it deserves.
by dleslie 7y ago
It lacks first-class Windows support.
That's it. That's why it fails to gain the traction it deserves.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoThat never stopped the Go community from porting Go to Windows. It was never ported by core maintainers, but by Go developers themselves.
- dleslie 7y agoAnd yet it was ported, and has OK support. Crystal on Windows is a non-starter right now.
- giancarlostoro 7y ago> OK support I havent had issues with Go on Windows or any OS, is there something broken about Go in Windows?
- pjmlp 7y agoGo still lacks Windows support for certain features, e.g. plugins. And wanting to be part of Google team helped many community contributions. Easy to compare with how much community contributions were made to Inferno and Limbo.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoFair, I had forgotten about plugins. On the other hand plugins has other nuances[0]. Plugins don't seem like a properly release feature due to its constraints. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/b6h8qq/is_anyone_actually_using_go_plugins/ejkxd2k/ https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/b6h8qq/is_anyone_ac...
- craftinator 7y agoBut then, developing an OS in Windows is akin to racing a Ford on a formula one track. Just why bother? Why not use an OS that doesn't need a whole weeks worth of reboots and regedits to set up the Dev environment correctly?