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Windows is becoming less and less of a platform every year

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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.

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