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>every single changeset is required to pass tests on Windows That alone does not make Windows a first class platform, and the attitude I quoted was exactly wha

by copx 13y ago

>every single changeset is required to pass tests on Windows That alone does not make Windows a first class platform, and the attitude I quoted was exactly what I got from the developers when I pointed out how relatively complex it was to get Rust working on Windows. Note the past tense, that boat has sailed, while Rust was still in heavy development you needed some serious dedication or an uncommon skill set just to build Hello World on Windows. Click on setup.exe, wait for the installer to finish, click on "Rust command prompt" - that is how it should have worked. That is what first class support for Windows during development would have looked like, not fiddling around with ports of Linux tools.

dbaupp 13y ago
> Rust was still in heavy development That time is (still) now. (E.g. four weeks ago was the week in which the most pull requests have been merged ever (89).)
jnbiche 13y ago
>Click on setup.exe, wait for the installer to finish, click on "Rust command prompt" You're wanting things that don't even exist in Linux land. We still have a multiple stage build process that can take hours (depending on your available processing power). If any pre-built Linux binaries are available from a trusted source, I couldn't find them. The bottom line is, if you're horribly offended by Rust's lack of Windows support, and want to use the language, then pitch in and lend a hand. That's what people who want more embedded ("bare metal") support are doing (myself included, although I haven't yet open sourced my improvements). After some initial stumbling blocks because of the pointer semantics, I've started using Rust regularly and it's becoming a very nice language. And it's the only new non-research language right now that actually has fast, deterministic performance ideal for real-time applications and games (Nimrod is close for soft real-time).

by copx 13y ago

dbaupp 13y ago

> Rust was still in heavy development That time is (still) now. (E.g. four weeks ago was the week in which the most pull requests have been merged ever (89).)

jnbiche 13y ago

>Click on setup.exe, wait for the installer to finish, click on "Rust command prompt" You're wanting things that don't even exist in Linux land. We still have a multiple stage build process that can take hours (depending on your available processing power). If any pre-built Linux binaries are available from a trusted source, I couldn't find them. The bottom line is, if you're horribly offended by Rust's lack of Windows support, and want to use the language, then pitch in and lend a hand. That's what people who want more embedded ("bare metal") support are doing (myself included, although I haven't yet open sourced my improvements). After some initial stumbling blocks because of the pointer semantics, I've started using Rust regularly and it's becoming a very nice language. And it's the only new non-research language right now that actually has fast, deterministic performance ideal for real-time applications and games (Nimrod is close for soft real-time).