People target nothing specific. They just add workarounds for platforms they feel morally willing to work with.
3: work, including doing the design for the Rust time stdlib and helping with the Rust nix (Unix shim) and mio libraries in the early days
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4/4: I this it's unquestionable that the experience of supporting Windows is harder. The question to ask is why.
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What's the ideal way to distribute a C library to make it easy for Windows developers to use it? Bare .c & .h files to copy paste?
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It would literally be a one-liner in Rust so there's no need for it ;) targeting software that can't yet integrate Rust into their toolchain
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(Which btw if you want to talk about OS distribution is basically "everything that targets any Linux or BSD" but that's another rant)
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.c and .h is a good enough packaging then, yes.
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Are you just saying Rust can't target FreeBSD?
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It can in the relatively trivial sense of compiling and running, but try getting a Rust library into ports / apt / yum / etc
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