From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 12/4/2025 9:15 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > On 12/4/2025 9:07 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:   
   >> On 12/3/25 7:29 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>    
   >>> So now they make a second attempt with XDE. From a purpose   
   >>> perspective and a high level technical perspective it is   
   >>> very similar to WSL (WSL allows you do Linux dev on Windows,   
   >>> XDE allows you to do VMS dev on Linux, the implementation   
   >>> is somewhat similar to WSL 1). WSL is a very popular option   
   >>> for developers. Trying to do something similar seems justified.   
   >   
   >> There are some use cases with WSL where people might build with Windows   
   >> tools to test and deploy on Linux (notably .NET) but I don't think WSL   
   >> was ever primarily about covering for the absence of modern development   
   >> tools on Linux.   
   >   
   > Not absence of modern dev tools.   
   >   
   > But maybe absence of the one tool some parts of MS care about: VS.   
   >   
   >>                And in any case why build a WSL1 equivalent   
   when you   
   >> already have a WSL2 equivalent?   
   >   
   > I don't think they have the WSL2 equivalent. They could have   
   > done it WSL2 style and made XDE a VM and done some file system   
   > integration (NFS based, SMB based or something else) and cross   
   > command line integration instead of what they did.   
   >   
   > But ...   
      
   My gut feeling (which is not really distinguishable from the output of   
   a RNG) is that the XDE implementation is a bottom-up idea (engineering   
   telling management: we can do this) not a top-down idea (management   
   telling engineering: do this).   
      
   Arne   
      
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