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“Ghostty is cross platform…” but not on windows :D

“App XYZ is mobile ready…” but not on Android.

Same vibe

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Windows is becoming less and less of a platform every year

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.

Yeah. I just wish Microsoft were better stewards of the OS.

100% agreed

Is that the OS from the people who make Excel?

Used to be, now it's the OS from the people who operate Azure.

I remember the days when "cross-platform" meant it worked on both operating systems: Windows 95 and Windows NT!

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.

Missing windows still means missing most computer users and developers specifically.

WezTerm is a great terminal that IS cross platform and works well on windows (and arguably better than ghostty)

Yep. I've migrate to it as I need a terminal that is truly cross platform.

Cross platform doesn't mean your platforms. I use Ghostty on GNU/Linux and MacOS, because it truly is cross platform.

It doesn't mean his platforms, it means the top ones, so at least his and hundreds of millions of others'

Terminals are not really targeting that entire demographic, and for the one they serve probably Mac/Linux form a majority vs Windows.

This is a wild take.

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.

Anyone that started computing using DOS is very aware of terminals.

> I find it uncommon to see anyone who chooses to use a terminal regularly using the MacOS default terminal

If you are going to say that about windows the same could be said about macOS. In fact, I only know of one mac user within my circle that has used the non default terminal.

Anecdotally, at day job, every terminal I see on windows is riced out. The Windows terminal app video from MS probably helped with that lol.

Those millions of users are not at your job, they are not programmers, and they don't use the terminal.

Windows is just a web browser, yes i'm serious

Windows is BonziBuddy with OS functionality attached.

BonziBuddy. I remember using it long back, was fun back then. Later heard that they injected malicious code into the software.

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