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Asmod4ntoday at 6:38 AM1 replyview on HN

Win32 is the most stable abi on the Linux desktop.


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rfgplktoday at 9:43 AM

Dead wrong. Win32 (externally) only seems stable, but internally it changes between Windows releases. Win7 syscalls are completely different from Win11 syscalls, meaning if I want to release a binary _without relying_ on Win32 I need to provide full syscall mappings _for each and every Windows version_. This doesn't happen on Linux.

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