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Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by kaio on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:27PM (#13697390)
I seem to miss the point why this is huge. Why can't the project compiled for Windows in first place? Are there System specific calls?
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Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by chrisper on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:35PM (#13697487)
I like to do my Go development in a Linux environment. So if I wanted to use Windows as my main OS, I'd have to either dual boot or use a VM. Now I can just develop directly in WSL.

A lot of people like to also develop in an environment they are going to deploy in. In my case I have some linux specific path in my code.

I am also running now Gogland Linux version through WSL.

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