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Demoting i686-pc-windows-gnu to Tier 2
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this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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32 bit Windows is probably no big loss. The real headline is this:
“The
*-windows-gnutargets currently do not have any dedicated target maintainers. We do not have a lot of expertise for this toolchain, and issues often aren't fixed and cause problems in CI that we have a hard time to debug.”That means 64 bit Windows support as well. That is a pretty big deal. How is it possible that Microsoft uses Rust in Windows now and yet there are no Windows maintainers? Isn’t their new Edit written in Rust too?
This is where is shake my head at corporate support. Microsoft has 200,000 employees. They cannot spare one for Rust?
Only the GNU-based targets are being demoted, not the MSVC-based ones.
Yeah, but those are the not-annoying ones. I don't care to spend 10 days installing 10 versions of the "Microsoft(c)(r) C++ Redistributable" or whatever it is called and 25 KBs in the right order with reboots in between on slowdows just to get a fucking compiler in CI. Compare this with a 5 second apt-get install mingw-gcc and done.
Sure, but the comment I was responding to seemed to be operating under the misunderstanding that there were no Windows maintainers at all, rather than just no maintainers for the GNU toolchain. In particular, the following remark gives the impression that they believe that no one at Microsoft is supporting Rust on Windows at all:
I did misunderstand. Thank you.
Right. My mistake.