Subj : NNCP
To   : NuSkooler
From : Oli
Date : Tue Oct 04 2022 10:32:41

NuSkooler wrote (2022-10-03):

 N> On Monday, October 3rd Oli muttered...
 Ol>> It's written in Go, so portability and support for cross-platform
 Ol>> compilation is great for non-retro platforms. If you're still using
 Ol>> Windows XP or running your BBS on DOS, Amiga or OS/2, you are stuck
 Ol>> with older software. But Windows, Linux, *BSDs, OS X, Android,
 Ol>> Plan9 should work.

 N> Man, they should have wrote it in Rust. It's so easy to make binaries for
 N> literally anything with that language.

Rewrite it in Rust has become a running gag.

Would Rust (cross-) compile for OS/2, DOS, Amiga?

Why not FreePascal or some other language that compiles to C? ;)

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