[RX14]

> We’ve been waiting for years.

I know, and it's unfortunate that there's not been time to work on this. I don't think people understand how small a language like Crystal is though. There's just one person working full-time on it currently!

If you'd like Windows support, one thing you could do to help is donate time or money to the Crystal project [1].

[1] https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/crystal-lang and https://opencollective.com/crystal-lang

[rvz]

>> We’ve been waiting for years.

Given the current status of the Windows port or any other issue, it is no good as a programmer "Waiting for years" and not even donating to said project and expecting any progress. That's like creating a new motor company with zero funding with a small team of less than 20 and its users begging for progress on a production-ready concept car in Q4.

> If you'd like Windows support, one thing you could do to help is donate time or money to the Crystal project

That's the sort of impression I expect from any meritocratic open-source project these days. Anyone interested in the project can donate their time to getting Windows support working or if they can't do that GitHub sponsors provides the shortest route to donating to devs (Like yourself RX14) who work on Crystal. No excuses from 'interested programmers' who want to use Crystal to complain for years about Windows on Crystal then.

[7thaccount]

There's a lot of people like myself that can code, but aren't at the level of doing Windows ports. Strictly speaking, it would be a very big effort for some folks, so they wait.

[RX14]

The basic foundations of a Windows port are already in place for Crystal, merged into master. In fact you can can already cross-compile a "Hello World" on Windows.

This means the port is in a place where the community can pitch in and help port little bits of the standard library, and help bring it into a release-ready condition.

[7thaccount]

I'm sure the crystal devs have done a great job, but again let me echo, just because I can write code at an intermediate level, doesn't mean I'd have a clue where to start or what to do in a project like this. I suppose you can never learn if you don't jump in, but it would be very difficult and time consuming. Maybe if there was a way to specify exactly what needs to be done so those less saavy could be directly pointed towards where to help? I'm not sure how this is really done.

[viraptor]

I'd disagree with the point of sponsoring really. In theory it's a cool idea... but if there are not enough devs to even start the effort, there won't be any to maintain it either. Adding windows support now would only slow down development that is happening now. And potentially it could place the authors in an uncomfortable situation where they feel obligated to support something they've got no interest / expertise in.