The i686-pc-windows-gnu target has been demoted to Tier 2, as mentioned in an earlier post.
Fedora is discussing dropping support entirely, right? Interesting times we live in…
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Yeh. Ubuntu also discussed it back in 2019, and wound up keeping some of it so Steam would keep working.
I expect the willingness to bend over backwards for one proprietary and very profitable app doesn't last forever, and given how involved gaming often is with pushing technology, it's frankly weird that Steam is still shackled to 32bit like that.
It’s really interesting that Proton feels like a step forward in cross-platform gaming, but it also made it more economical to focus on Windows builds and dependencies.
Steam has a lot of power in the market and a vested interest in making things easier for developers and publishers. I wouldn’t be surprised if they picked up (more of) the slack in keeping systems backwards compatible.
Same as Microsoft, sort of. They can’t afford to have Apple’s “courage” in dropping x86 and then amd64.
Just to be clear: it is only the GNU toolchain for which the 32-bit target is being demoted, not the MSVC toolchain.
Does it affect you somehow? I don't know anyone still running 32-bit systems.
Steam, as mentioned, and an old iMac that I’ve been meaning to dual-boot for a while.
This kind of thing is mostly inevitable, but has an impact on software and game preservation.
The Steam launcher is one very popular Linux app which needs a 32 bits arch apparently.
Wow, I did not know that still runs in 32 bit. Damn, Valve should really get on that 😅
Wow, a lot of great things! :D
Slice as chunks is huge. I would prefer an unsafe &[T] as &[T;N], but this can be used for that too.
Let chains are finally stable! Yay! Thanks everyone who made that happen.