alt Hacker NewsSo Microsoft continues to support something that is presumably harder to maintain than Apple just continuing to ship existing 32-bit libraries?
So Microsoft continues to support something that is presumably harder to maintain than Apple just continuing to ship existing 32-bit libraries?
I’m not very familiar with the Windows side, but it sounds harder to create but easier to maintain. Once the 32->64 translation shims are implemented, you’re done. They’ll keep working. If you’re not adding new 32-bit APIs then there’s no more work to be done. Maintaining a parallel set of libraries means each change has to work on both targets.