Windows Subsystem for Linux Architectural Overview

Post by cyphar » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 11:50 AM UTC

mamon wrote: post #32

cududa wrote: post #25

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I was just thinking after reading this - sure there were some engineering marvels that enabled this, but for the implementation it was just rote work with the sheer manpower Microsoft can muster up. That in itself is just really impressive. Edit: giving it more thought, a Mozilla engineer recently demo'd an immediate mode rendering engine that him and one other dev wrote in 9 months, with feature parity of modern bro…

>> big engineering effort or a couple '10x developers' - pretty impressive Or, being Mozilla engineer for quite some time he had enough domain knowledge to do that. Or he found a clever way to reuse good parts of Mozilla code with just enough changes to avoid copyright infringement lawsuit.

Post by JdeBP » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 12:39 PM UTC

13of40 wrote: post #8

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I created an account just to reply to this. You said, "It's often weirdly hard to find out what's going on with some particular Microsoft project or technology..." I was just thinking that very thing today. Why is that?

It's not as bad as Amazon, apparently. I've known people there who say everything is compartmentalized. At Microsoft, it's typically only the bleeding edge stuff they keep secret internally.