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I really deeply disagree. You could use the same argument against Msys2 and Cygwin, yet they were key to me choosing the Unix command line as my common interfa

I really deeply disagree. You could use the same argument against Msys2 and Cygwin, yet they were key to me choosing the Unix command line as my common interface across all OSes when I was a teenager, with plenty of games that I wasn't going to give up any time soon to live in Linux. I think it's ridiculously naive to think that businesses are going to build on top of a closed source licensed system like WSL when with minimal effort they could choose Linux. The business risks of the former are huge and they're handing a big lever to MS to screw them in the future - why would they do that? If anything, WSL makes it easier to transition to Linux, because you can develop and test without committing to a big change or using clunky virtualization.

Nullabillity 8y ago
In theory I would agree with you, but clearly a lot of businesses are not rational. Just look at how many built stuff on top of MS products to begin with!
- ta848347 8y ago
  How is that not rational? You're letting your biases cloud your judgement.
  - Nullabillity 8y ago
    > I think it's ridiculously naive to think that businesses are going to build on top of a closed source licensed system like WSL when with minimal effort they could choose Linux. The business risks of the former are huge and they're handing a big lever to MS to screw them in the future - why would they do that? All of that applies just as much to native Windows development, except you no longer have a canonical escape hatch (aside from WINE, I guess).