Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)(belkadan.com) |
Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)(belkadan.com) |
[1]: https://seri.tools/blog/compiling-rust-for-legacy-windows/
C# on Windows 3.11 https://www.hanselman.com/blog/net-everywhere-apparently-als...
Also, a gopher client makes the Win 3.1 desk not-so-obsolete.
Ok, let's back to languages. I think some versions of Lazarus/Free Pascal still target Win 3.11 or Windows 9x at least.
Monterey wishes it looked half as good as OS 9 looks like
The entire MacOS classic line of OS’s were horrible for stability. Any small bug in any program could knock out the entire OS, and they did multiple times a day. Don’t get me wrong, the love put into the OS was palpable. That’s why you used it. It just crashed all day every day.
On the other hand, like a great day at a public theater act, when it goes well, it really does go well. I have OS disks and applications saved to this day, in their own filing system in a drawer, that run great, look great, and are a joy to use. And so you know, months of daily, extensive use, with no crashes.
You could nearly get D code working for a 16 bit computer due to the history of the dmd backend, even.
It was bought up by Motorola/Freescale around the turn of the century and lived on as tools for embedded processors until fairly recently, although the later releases were based on Eclipse.
Cloud native language of choice for a reason ;)
no mention of virus here?