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[–] qweertz@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I wonder if I'll live long enough to witness the Rust rewrite of ReactOS

(it's written in C and has had a snail pace development, well, since forever. not meant as a negative btw. it's just that their resources and demand for it are quite limited afaik)

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Who knows? Maybe it just needs a big, big push, like Wayland.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe they started developing before rust was mainstream. Battle-testing and debugging in the real world matters more than programming language anyways?

[–] qweertz@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

huh, I didn't say they should have programmed it in Rust. I was just joking about the meme Rust rewrite like a lot of C/C++ projects

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

sorry I did not get it was a joke, you never know with rust

[–] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

they haven't reached windows xp feature set, as i understand. i think they are around win 2k.

but might become interesting for europe.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

once they support old XP printer drivers better then linux drivers are today I would be interested …