From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   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 ...   
      
   Arne   
      
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