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		rlp on Nov 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Porting 58k lines of D and C++ to Jai I'm not seeing a major problem here, you just need to install MSVC++ alongside it.

svnpenn on Nov 23, 2022 [–]

Its an extra requirement, thats not imposed by many other languages.

pjmlp on Nov 24, 2022 | [–]

Rust and Go (for cgo) require it as well.

As do Python, Ruby, Tcl, node and Java if you want to write native extensions.

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