Subj : Re: Learning to code for
To   : Arelor
From : Dennisk
Date : Sun Jul 05 2020 11:27:00

-=> Arelor wrote to NuSkooler <=-

 Ar>   Re: RE: Learning to code for MS-DOS/FreeDOS
 Ar>   By: NuSkooler to Arelor on Fri Jul 03 2020 12:08 pm

 Nu> If you wanna go even more modern-retro, people have had success using Rust
 Ar>  to Nu> create DOS binaries :) If you want to go older, Turbo C is also
 Ar> a good option, Nu> or more limited Quick Basic (look at the stuff that
 Ar> is created in the DOS Nu> competitions every year!)Don't they take your
 Ar> Retrocomputing license for using Rust or something? :-PI was not aware
 Ar> there were DOS competitions anywhere. I will have to look those out.I
 Ar> think I'd rather work with a language that has modern day applications
 Ar> for the most part. Life has been sucking a bit for me so I am not
 Ar> having as much time as I want for learning a language that has only
 Ar> retro applications.

Is Rust for DOS efficient?  I tried it briefly for Linux, and it created very
large libraries.  I'm not even sure there is a DOS compiler, you would have to
compile on an other OS and transfer it to DOS.

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