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Re:Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mand... by riedel on Saturday September 20, 2025 @03:22PM (#45316471)
As said before I wasn't complaining about windows, but rather of not so common posix layers like cygwin [0]. Most C posix compliant stuff compiles in my experience.

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/137819

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Re:Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mand... by sunshowers on Saturday September 20, 2025 @03:40PM (#45316633)
Right, but Rust makes it so you don't have to use Cygwin. It's one of the great portability advantages of Rust that you can write real Windows programs with it.
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Re:Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mand... by riedel on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:25PM (#45317116)
I am not really sure if I can follow here. How could a rust compiled program like git honor my cygwin emulated mount points in paths, which I need, when working with other posix compliant software.
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Re:Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mand... by sunshowers on Saturday September 20, 2025 @06:31PM (#45318192)
I thought that if you invoke a native Windows binary with Cygwin, it translates Unix-looking paths into Windows ones. But it's been a long time since I used Cygwin so I could be wrong.
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