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Isn’t the modern Windows runtime just Linux anyway?

• emeryberger 2y ago
  (Scalene author here) Nope, but WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is, and Scalene works great with it.
• pjc50 2y ago
  Er .. no? The modern Windows runtime, for various definitions of those words, is the confusingly named "WinRT" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-apis/intro-to-using-cpp-with-winrt https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-... Underneath it's still substantially similar to good old Windows NT. There's a Linux "subsystem". Well, two of them. WSL1 is an API translation layer that ends up being cripplingly slow. Don't use it. WSL2 is more of a VM that just runs a Linux distro. This is before you get into third party compatibility layers like cygwin and mingw.