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by kazinator 2540 days ago
> Windows

> No, wait. really ???

Dev should check out https://www.kylheku.com/cygnal

If you can compile this for Cygwin, you can deploy it as a native Windows application with Cygnal's fork of cygwin1.dll (plus other needed DLL's from Cygwin).

Console support is fine; even programs that use termios and ANSI codes directly work in a Windows console (like out of cmd.exe).

That was one of the primary motivations for Cygnal; I wanted a decent quality Windows port of a programming language with a well-developed REPL: something someone could just install from a regular installer, and then run out of cmd.exe with the same interactive experience as on Unixes.