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“Ghostty is cross platform…” but not on windows :D “App XYZ is mobile ready…” but not on Android. Same vibe

• WhereIsTheTruth 1y ago
  Windows is just a web browser, yes i'm serious
  • bitwize 1y ago
    Windows is BonziBuddy with OS functionality attached.
    • JoyceBabu 1y ago
      BonziBuddy. I remember using it long back, was fun back then. Later heard that they injected malicious code into the software.
• AndyKelley 1y ago
  Windows is becoming less and less of a platform every year
  • metaltyphoon 1y ago
    Not saying you are wrong, but this is akin to “this is the year of the Linux Desktop”. You probably don’t have this telemetry but have you thought about how having window support helps Zig adoption? Anecdotal, at day job, we started to use Zig build system to target Windows because that’s where the customers are.
    • AndyKelley 1y ago
      Yeah. I just wish Microsoft were better stewards of the OS.
      • metaltyphoon 1y ago
        100% agreed
  • sevensor 1y ago
    Is that the OS from the people who make Excel?
    • NoGravitas 1y ago
      Used to be, now it's the OS from the people who operate Azure.
  • bitwize 1y ago
    I remember the days when "cross-platform" meant it worked on both operating systems: Windows 95 and Windows NT!
    • WesolyKubeczek 1y ago
      I remember Silverlight being advertised as a cross-platform solution (in small print: works on all supported Microsoft(R) Windows™ platforms!). To this day there are things written for Electron which are „cross-platform” in the sense that Windows and macOS are supported, but none of Linux or *BSD. Thus I have some warm fuzzies when something new is cross-platform, but not on Windows. (But hey I heard WSL supports Wayland?) Even more warm fuzzies if Windows users come to whine about availability. Happy to have lived to see this turning of tables come. I’m not a good person, I guess.
  • epolanski 1y ago
    Missing windows still means missing most computer users and developers specifically.
• keithnz 1y ago
  WezTerm is a great terminal that IS cross platform and works well on windows (and arguably better than ghostty)
  • metaltyphoon 1y ago
    Yep. I've migrate to it as I need a terminal that is truly cross platform.
    • Zambyte 1y ago
      Cross platform doesn't mean your platforms. I use Ghostty on GNU/Linux and MacOS, because it truly is cross platform.
      • eviks 1y ago
        It doesn't mean his platforms, it means the top ones, so at least his and hundreds of millions of others'
        • mariusor 1y ago
          Terminals are not really targeting that entire demographic, and for the one they serve probably Mac/Linux form a majority vs Windows.
          • metaltyphoon 1y ago
            This is a wild take.
            • Zambyte 1y ago
              Is it? I've heard of people using a non-Microsoft terminal on Windows besides git bash and cygwin probably no more often than I could count on one hand. And people don't ever use those for the terminal, but usually for GNU. On the other hand, I find it uncommon to see anyone who chooses to use a terminal regularly using the MacOS default terminal, and there is no default Linux terminal. I find it hard to imagine a world where that take is wild.