Issue #19325 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto).
The reason Windows being second class is not lack of interest but lack of contributors
with extensive experience with (non WSL) Windows platform. Any contributors?
I understand your frustration, but complaining does not improve the situation,
unfortunately. We need contribution.
Matz.
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Bug #19325: Windows support lacking.
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19325#change-101166
* Author: dsisnero (Dominic Sisneros)
* Status: Assigned
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: yjit
* Backport: 2.7: DONTNEED, 3.0: DONTNEED, 3.1: DONTNEED, 3.2: UNKNOWN
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Ruby's support on windows has always been second class. With some of the recent
decisions, windows support is falling even more behind. Recent developments in mjit and
yjit that exclude windows are two glaring issues that should be corrected. Googling
'percent of windows vs other operating systems' and it shows windows has a share
of 76%. Ceding that users to python and other programming languages has to be one of the
reasons python continues get more market share from ruby. With rust having first class
windows support and threading support, is there a reason why yjit is not able to work on
windows? Also, windows compiler support has matured enough and vcpkg support has evolved
enough that it seems it should be possible to finally get a ruby version without having to
use msys2. Even Crystal language has a version that runs on windows without needing
msys2.
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