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No need to compile it yourself, for most common platforms you can download static binaries: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/tag/v2.0.4 https://github

by em500 6y ago

No need to compile it yourself, for most common platforms you can download static binaries: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/tag/v2.0.4 https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/tag/v2.0.4

saagarjha 6y ago
That list is sadly a bit short :(
- jagger27 6y ago
  Genuinely curious what’s missing.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    I sometimes need to do work on niche and/or cursed platforms: iPhone, Linux 2.something for MIPS, a semi-functional Linux reimplementation, … Finding a Go toolchain for these is not easy, if it exists at all, but one for C with the right set of libraries (as far as I am aware, just ncurses?) if it didn't already ship with the OS or was available in some prebuilt form is not nearly as hard.
- vanderZwan 6y ago
  I must admit that I did a double take since I'm so used to seeing projects that only release for Windows and OSX but not Linux, or some other combination of two out of those three, but I suppose that is me having too low expectation more than anything else. You could open an issue asking for the platform you are missing- Go supposedly has good cross compilation support[0], so as long as Go supports it and you can help confirm that the builds work for the devs they might be open to it. [0] https://dave.cheney.net/2015/08/22/cross-compilation-with-go-1-5 https://dave.cheney.net/2015/08/22/cross-compilation-with-go...
- ktm5j 6y ago
  That list only refers to changes since the previous release.. not a complete feature list... And go is not an interpreted language. You don't need go tools to run precompiled go binaries. Just like with C, you don't need gcc to run C binaries. However, you seem determined to hate this for whatever reason.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    I don't hate the software, I'm merely listing reasons why I don't think I could use this over nano; a list I think is relevant because the project seems to have an explicit goal of being competitive with it. I am well aware that Go is a compiled language, the issue I have is that its reach is less than C's. (FWIW, the "list" I was referring to was the list of precompiled binaries, not the feature list, which I pulled from the website copy.)
- vorpalhex 6y ago
  If you're missing a particular platform and it's even remotely popular, open an issue. Ideally if you can open a PR for it too that'd be great, but those kinds of requests are usually easy to satisfy but won't be done until there's demand for them.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    > If you're missing a particular platform and it's even remotely popular I think this is the problem ;) My complaints center around platforms which aren't popular enough to merit someone actually maintaining a port for.

by em500 6y ago

No need to compile it yourself, for most common platforms you can download static binaries: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/tag/v2.0.4 https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/tag/v2.0.4

saagarjha 6y ago

That list is sadly a bit short :(

jagger27 6y ago
Genuinely curious what’s missing.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  I sometimes need to do work on niche and/or cursed platforms: iPhone, Linux 2.something for MIPS, a semi-functional Linux reimplementation, … Finding a Go toolchain for these is not easy, if it exists at all, but one for C with the right set of libraries (as far as I am aware, just ncurses?) if it didn't already ship with the OS or was available in some prebuilt form is not nearly as hard.
vanderZwan 6y ago
I must admit that I did a double take since I'm so used to seeing projects that only release for Windows and OSX but not Linux, or some other combination of two out of those three, but I suppose that is me having too low expectation more than anything else. You could open an issue asking for the platform you are missing- Go supposedly has good cross compilation support[0], so as long as Go supports it and you can help confirm that the builds work for the devs they might be open to it. [0] https://dave.cheney.net/2015/08/22/cross-compilation-with-go-1-5 https://dave.cheney.net/2015/08/22/cross-compilation-with-go...
ktm5j 6y ago
That list only refers to changes since the previous release.. not a complete feature list... And go is not an interpreted language. You don't need go tools to run precompiled go binaries. Just like with C, you don't need gcc to run C binaries. However, you seem determined to hate this for whatever reason.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  I don't hate the software, I'm merely listing reasons why I don't think I could use this over nano; a list I think is relevant because the project seems to have an explicit goal of being competitive with it. I am well aware that Go is a compiled language, the issue I have is that its reach is less than C's. (FWIW, the "list" I was referring to was the list of precompiled binaries, not the feature list, which I pulled from the website copy.)
vorpalhex 6y ago
If you're missing a particular platform and it's even remotely popular, open an issue. Ideally if you can open a PR for it too that'd be great, but those kinds of requests are usually easy to satisfy but won't be done until there's demand for them.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  > If you're missing a particular platform and it's even remotely popular I think this is the problem ;) My complaints center around platforms which aren't popular enough to merit someone actually maintaining a port for.