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I'm only saying it's a tradeoff. Obviously given Rust's origins and goals dropping desktop as a target would make no sense - it was designed explicitly for thos
by staticassertion 5y ago
I'm only saying it's a tradeoff. Obviously given Rust's origins and goals dropping desktop as a target would make no sense - it was designed explicitly for those platforms.
But if a language said "we're not going to support those" I wouldn't care at all, and a massive number of use cases - the majority, I think - would be solved with that language.
In terms of what you develop on, that's a whole other story. The majority, of course, are on Linux. But I'd be interested to know what platform they target.
- saghm 5y ago> In terms of what you develop on, that's a whole other story. The majority, of course, are on Linux I'm not sure that's as obvious as you're making it sound. The number of people who use Linux on the desktop is absolutely minuscule compared to the combined user base of Windows and MacOS. It's probably not as lopsided for developers, but I've never seen anything to imply that most developers in general are on Linux, and I'd honestly be surprised if that's the case given how much smaller the portion is in terms of people I know or have worked with, and that's as someone who does not personally own any laptop or desktop that runs anything other than Linux.
- staticassertion 5y agoThe linked poll has the majority of rust developers on linux
- brokencode 5y agoSure, but only barely a majority. Nearly half of Rust users are on Windows or MacOS. Dropping support for those would be crazily irresponsible and would probably be a bigger programming scandal than even the Python 2->3 ordeal. And for what benefit? Making some low level libraries easier?