It also shows how necessary it is to have some sort of deprecation process. Maintaining nonsensical landmine features for compatibility with an operating system released 36 years ago is putting the interests of MS's lazy long-term users ahead of the interests of its current users. Even if MS maintained a policy of only removing functionality after a 10-year deprecation period, this "feature" would have been gone long ago. Transitions must be orderly, but they should still happen.
It's nice that Rust's toolchain is better able to live Windows crazy ecosystem, but that doesn't make Windows any less crazy.
It's nice that Rust's toolchain is better able to live Windows crazy ecosystem, but that doesn't make Windows any less crazy.