alt Hacker NewsWSL 1 is long gone for all practical purposes, yet it still dominates conversations.
Also everyone on FOSS gets it wrong, WSL wasn't a subsystem like classical Windows NT ones.
It was based on Drawbridge research using picoprocesses, a new approach for library OSes.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/pico-pro...
> Also everyone on FOSS gets it wrong, WSL wasn't a subsystem like classical Windows NT ones.
Everyone in FOSS? How about Microsoft got it wrong, since they actually named it The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)? It wasn't the FOSS community who chose the name for them.