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Re:Nim vs. Crystal by pault on Thursday December 26, 2019 @01:46PM (#21885781)
I'm having a harder time coming up with a language that doesn't have native Windows support. All of the language runtimes I've worked with (node, ruby, python, java, c#, php) have had native Windows binaries.
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Re:Nim vs. Crystal by e12e on Thursday December 26, 2019 @02:41PM (#21886128)
bash? (outside of mingw/wsl/cygwin)?
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Re:Nim vs. Crystal by yellowapple on Thursday December 26, 2019 @05:25PM (#21887368)
There's a Windows-native version of bash included with the Windows version of Git, no?

But yeah, I'd definitely count MinGW (or more modernly, MSYS2) as "native" in this context.

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Re:Nim vs. Crystal by orthoxerox on Thursday December 26, 2019 @05:55PM (#21887564)
> There's a Windows-native version of bash included with the Windows version of Git, no?

Not really, as it's built against MSYS2 libs, which are a fork of Cygwin.

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Re:Nim vs. Crystal by yellowapple on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:40PM (#21888687)
> I'd definitely count MinGW (or more modernly, MSYS2) as "native" in this context
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