On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 22:02:13 UTC, Paul D Anderson wrote:
I'm waiting to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 to avoid the inevitable just-released bugs, but does anyone have any info about D on Windows 10? Has anyone tried it?
We probably should have done more testing on it, but at least in theory, programs compiled on at least Windows 7 or 8 should work on 10. They haven't done as good a job with it in recent years, but backwards compatibility is kind of Microsoft's thing and part of why many folks use Windows.
But regardless, if you find bugs in dmd or Phobos or anything of the sort which show up specifically on Windows 10, please report them: https://issues.dlang.org
p.s. Please don't tell me how much better your favorite operating system is than Windows. Thank you. :)
Wait, what if someone's favorite OS _was_ Windows. If they started talking about how much better Windows was than Windows, would that create some kind of paradox? ;)
You know, it would be _really_ cool if there were an OS out there that was fully compliant with both the POSIX standard and ecosystem and the Win32 API such that you could run KDE, gnome, bash, zsh, etc. on it just like on Linux/FreeBSD/etc. _and_ run Windows programs on it - all as native applications. A total pipe dream really, but _man_ would that be cool...
- Jonathan M Davis
