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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by computerex on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:51AM (#23246256)
> The tooling they make for developers has always been top notch

I have to emphatically disagree there. Up until recently Windows didn't even have a decent terminal app. As a developer I tend to shy away from Windows precisely because the *Nix alternatives offer a better development experience, from cli to package management and more.

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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by pjmlp on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:36AM (#23246632)
Not every developer needs a terminal app to feel like one.

In fact Mac OS also didn't have any until OS X.

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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by CodeGlitch on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:01AM (#23246851)
Real developers automate. It's hard to automate without a terminal :)
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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by pjmlp on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:59AM (#23247614)
You can automate with scripting languages and REPL.
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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by freeone3000 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:12AM (#23246966)
If you're using a terminal to automate on windows, you're going to have a bad time. You'll want something like AutoHotKey which has been around for a long while.
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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by HeWhoLurksLate on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:54PM (#23249777)
While you're not wrong, I think that you're referencing a different flavor of automation than GP is.
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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:53AM (#23247538)
You can automate just fine in a console with PowerShell.
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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by tech-historian on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:48AM (#23246721)
OS X was released in 2001, which is a pretty long time ago.
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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by pjmlp on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:54AM (#23246773)
Yet classical Mac OS developers were able to do without one for 17 years, and I bet most developers actually targeting Apple devices still do without one, when I look around the office over here and see InteliJ, XCode and AppCode.
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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by mhd on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:44AM (#23247422)
Doesn't MPW count?
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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by pjmlp on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:59AM (#23247627)
Yeah, but most people were using the GUI tooling anyway and not everyone was a MPW user.
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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by gindely on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:00AM (#23246838)
Windows still doesn't have a decent terminal app! The new one just crashes when I resume from suspend. (I believe it's because when the computer suspends, it forgets about the external monitor. But it's still not evident to me why that should make it crash.)
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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux by noisem4ker on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:40PM (#23248938)
If we consider third parties, ConEmu is well beyond decent.
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