[bmacho]

> the worst case scenario is really mild: A new version of windows comes out, breaking ntdll compatibility. Zig project adds a fix to the std lib. Application developer recompiles their zig project from source, and ships an update to their users.

The ~only good thing that programmers have achieved in the past ~60 years has been Windows stability.

Create a popular programming language, and then make programs written in it not run on newer Windowses is just something else. I so hate this.

Was "robust, optimal and reusable" always "run an older Windows on your newer Windows to run Zig software"?

[gjsman-1000]

... this is just Linux binaries. It's humorous to me that we literally do exactly this, for Linux, with even less stability, but heaven forbid we do something approaching that on Windows despite the snobbery against Windows.