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New comment by awson in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

awson — Tue, 20 May 2025 01:56:39 +0000

If on WSL2, they need

[interop]

appendWindowsPath=false

section in /etc/wsl.conf.

Then everything will go flawlessly.

awson — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:41:02 +0000

Absolutely.

Quite a long time ago I was working on a some business application's reporting facility.

It used to take about an hour, and my development reduced this time to a 1 or 2 seconds ballpark.

This was HUGE. And changed the way users create these reports forever.

awson — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:58:36 +0000

AFAUI, this extension uses proprietary C++ front-end commercially licensed from EDG.

The same front-end powers their Visual Studio IDE (not Code).

Also, AFAIK, there exist an alternative `clangd`-based C++ extension, which is fully open-source (but I could be wrong).

awson — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:39:50 +0000

And using `libgit2`, written in C, for heavy-lifting.

awson — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 04:13:23 +0000

The very existence of Far Manager makes me stay on Windows.

awson — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:35:45 +0000

"wouldn't necessarily be able"

It goes completely against the most (perhaps) fundamental part of C++ philosophy of overloading functions on argument types.

awson — Thu, 17 May 2018 10:56:25 +0000

Is there any other country doing this?

Points: 2

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awson — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:47:06 +0000

This.