Subj : Re: Learning to code for
To   : NuSkooler
From : Dennisk
Date : Mon Jul 06 2020 21:55:00

-=> NuSkooler wrote to Dennisk <=-


 Nu> On Saturday, July 4th Dennisk said...
 De> Is Rust for DOS efficient?  I tried it briefly for Linux, and it created
 De> very large libraries.  I'm not even sure there is a DOS compiler, you
 De> would have to compile on an other OS and transfer it to DOS.

 Nu> I've not had this issue with Rust, probably lib(s) you brought in?
 Nu> Yeah, you have to cross compile to produce DOS binaries. This is
 Nu> certainly something more
 Nu>  bleeding edge. FPC is better suited if you want to produce DOS
 Nu> binaries from a
 Nu>  cross compile and have better support I imagine.

Possibly it was libraries.  Maybe it was defaulting to static linking.  I
remember trying some switches, but couldn't get it much smaller.

Might play with Rust again, but I can't see much other reason to use it other
than the borrow checker.  D seems to offer more as a general purpose
programming language which can be used as the "next C++".  It just doesn't hav
DOS support though.
 
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