Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from Linux, no MSVC

Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by FeistySkink on Saturday May 13, 2023 @02:51PM (#35931456)

I'm talking about general UI responsiveness. Perhaps this is just nostalgia.

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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by pengaru on Saturday May 13, 2023 @03:07PM (#35931605)

There's some truth to it just for vendor-supported graphics driver reasons alone.

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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by bluedino on Saturday May 13, 2023 @03:10PM (#35931634)

Watching 90's GUI programs is always fun because you can see the graphics as they are drawn, which I don't seem to remember from back then.

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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by robinsonb5 on Saturday May 13, 2023 @05:23PM (#35932883)

If you're nostalgic for that, there's plenty of modern software with a watch-it-paint-itself UI. <coughSagecough>

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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by robertlagrant on Saturday May 13, 2023 @05:30PM (#35932941)

I have never heard anyone call Sage "modern software" before : - )

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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by robertlagrant on Saturday May 13, 2023 @05:30PM (#35932944)

Now we have spinners that twirl while we wait for graphics to transmit from another continent.

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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by hulitu on Sunday May 14, 2023 @12:53PM (#35939328)

And GUIs which redraw the whole screen when the cursor blinks. /s

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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by bitwize on Saturday May 13, 2023 @03:20PM (#35931750)

It is. Windows UIs didn't get Amiga levels of responsive until Windows 98SE or so.

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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by robinsonb5 on Saturday May 13, 2023 @05:24PM (#35932896)

And then lost them again during the gap between Vista's launch and SSDs becoming ubiquitous...

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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by FeistySkink on Saturday May 13, 2023 @06:43PM (#35933521)

I had some of the first SLC SSDs. It didn't help at all. Windows 7 was a massive improvement though.

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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by hulitu on Sunday May 14, 2023 @12:54PM (#35939333)

I have a SSD on my work machine. Win 10 is still slow.

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