I've worked pretty extensively with the Win32 API and Go. I needed to target Windows XP and had to use an older version of Go for stuff like reading/writing fil

I've worked pretty extensively with the Win32 API and Go. I needed to target Windows XP and had to use an older version of Go for stuff like reading/writing files, networking, etc. From what I could gather, newer versions of the Win32 API add abstractions that make common operations require less API calls. I remember needing to use 9 separate Win32 API calls just to bring a window to the foreground and set focus to it. So I think part of the reason Go drops support for older versions of Windows is they were able to simplify code on _their_ end by leveraging these new abstractions. I imagine Rust might be doing the same thing? This is all pure speculation and my memory is fuzzy on this, so take this with a grain of salt.