[ifmpx]

Not to turn this into a contest but Rust officially supports windows 7. In fact I believe Rust fully supported windows XP too until very recently when they decreased platform support to supported-but-unbuilt-and-untested.

Another benefit of a community-driven language as aposed to a corporate-controlled one.

[zapzupnz]

Or more likely because Rust was developed to support Windows 7 before it was deprecated; Swift never targeted Windows 7. Swift was open sourced in 2015, the year when Windows 7's mainstream support ended; at that time, Swift only targeted Mac OS X and Ubuntu.

Rust began as a project in 2010, Windows 7 was released in 2009.

[raphlinus]

I think GP's comment is fair. The portability of Rust is of a completely different order of magnitude than Swift. I mean, people have actually gotten it running on Windows 98 SE. And on Windows, Rust has access to a rich winapi surface, nice COM wrappers (including semi-official support through Microsoft's com-rs), a WinRT projection. Not to mention that crates basically just work. Maybe it isn't a first-class supported language for Windows just yet, but it's starting to feel pretty close.

[oaiey]

This Rust/WinRT translation is the key for Windows maturity now. C translation is the everywhere basic but Windows support is achieved with eh WinRT translation.

And right now, that is C++, JS, Rust and .NET. Not more not less.