I still tell myself if I going to vibecode a windows app, it will be native and suport 2000 and be a completely static linked executive. Petzold style programming may require memory unsafe legacy languages, but boy does the resulting small fast program with accelerafor keys and native themeable controls make me comfortable.
If you have Windows 11 it comes with this new (open source) edit written in Rust - open a command prompt and type edit.
This is somewhat amusing, considering all the bloat that it comes with otherwise. Even notepad has become rather... feature full... it has tabs, spell checking and AI...
I expect the build for Windows 2000 may work on NT 4.0, because it has OpenGL, but Windows 3.11 with Win32s will never work - because it does not have OpenGL(I think...).
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Im still bummed the web won the UI wars.
https://github.com/microsoft/edit
If you have Windows 11 it comes with this new (open source)
editwritten in Rust - open a command prompt and typeedit.This is somewhat amusing, considering all the bloat that it comes with otherwise. Even
notepadhas become rather... feature full... it has tabs, spell checking and AI...I expect the build for Windows 2000 may work on NT 4.0, because it has OpenGL, but Windows 3.11 with Win32s will never work - because it does not have OpenGL(I think...).
And Unicode will also be a problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_in_Microsoft_Windows
Win32s for Windows 3.1x: 1993
Windows NT 3.1: 1993
Windows NT 3.5: 1994
Windows NT 3.51: 1995 (may)
Windows 95: 1995 (july)