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Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

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[–] EON_GuG@lemm.ee 100 points 2 months ago (50 children)

Don't you think this is another Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish strategy from Microsoft?

[–] themachine@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I think it’s more embrace. They have to compete against so many more entities now.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 15 points 2 months ago (8 children)

This is my thought, they've all but lost the battle for cloud servers and they'd rather the developers computers were Windows. WSL allows that.

[–] Overspark 4 points 2 months ago

Poorly. WSL is awesome but it's I/O performance is not at a level which will make developers on bigger projects happy.

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