The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
blogs.windows.com
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:

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

  • KeenFlame@feddit.nuEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Uh… But that’s what it’s for? Like it’s it’s primary purpose…? They created it for devops…? What are they smoking?

    • baduhai@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      Msys2 was not created for devops, I just happen to be a devops engineer who uses it. Their websites describes it as:

      MSYS2 is a collection of tools and libraries providing you with an easy-to-use environment for building, installing and running native Windows software.

      Because it makes software building, packaging and distributing as simple aand standardised as it is on Linux, it means they effectively have a very good CLI on their hands. On my work laptop, I now use WezTerm with fish shell and helix editor for my workflow, and live in the terminal. Would this be possible to do without msys2 or wsl? Yes, but it would be a huge pain.