Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)

Re:Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020) by donatj on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @07:33AM (#30841217)

Go until 1.3 supported all the way back to Windows 2000. I was pretty sad when they yanked support, the idea of becoming a hermit running Win2k writing Go is an oddly satisfying fantasy.

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Re:Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020) by bsaul on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @08:15AM (#30841523)

go is one of the rare language i can imagine using on a 20+ yo hardware / software stack. The whole go tooling is so much focused on simple and performant design that i think it wouldn't be too bad of an experience.

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Re:Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020) by mhh__ on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @08:32AM (#30841653)

Until very recently the default linker for D on 32 bit Windows dated back to the 80s.

You could nearly get D code working for a 16 bit computer due to the history of the dmd backend, even.

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Re:Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020) by throwra620 on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @08:53AM (#30841851)

Apart from it being an absolutely terrible programming language

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Re:Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020) by Shadonototra on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @10:24AM (#30842924)

Go is a wonderful language, what are you talking about

Cloud native language of choice for a reason ;)

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