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Reminded me of this famous quote:

Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

 

[teiresias]

What? Wow.

Finally I won't need a VM to write my NANOWRIMO novel in VI.

Seriously though, using command line anything in modern Windows feels . . . well weird. I keep a VM with Ubuntu MATE on my machine for stuff like this - though I've thought about buying a NUC exclusively for Linux use.

 

[MartyStu]

With what compiler?

gcc-the example was through a complete linux toolchain.

Yep. Resultant binary was an ELF.

Pretty fucking impressive. And not at all very difficult to understand.

 

[captive]

Good article on how the regular Windows command line is rubbish and why an improvement over it is necessary.

this article is trash. Powershell is THE command line tool for windows.

Have you used a computer in the last 30 years? I worked at Microsoft for eight of them. Whatever you're trying to do with that snark, I am not interested.

i asked if you can eloborate, i've never heard someone describe windows as a "Walled garden" No need to get your panties in a bunch. Also i could give two shits that you worked for microsoft. Most people i've dealt with that used to work there are arrogant pricks. I've had others tell me the same thing.

Not really.

Powershell may be a significant improvement, but it pales in comparison to bash.

I am not familiar with BASH but

I can
manage AD
manage Exchange
manage hyperv
manage vmware
manage citrix
manage RDS
manage lync
manage Azure
manage system center

and by manage i mean pretty much do anything and everything you want

and sooooo much more in powershell, including powershell remoting to do all those things listed.
If BASH can do all that with equivalent technologies, cool, but powershell is no slouch.

 

[lastflowers]

This stuff is really cool. Wish I could say more, but I'm sure //Build can deliver more than I could talk about it.

 

[cpp_is_king]

Yep. Resultant binary was an ELF.

Pretty fucking impressive. And not at all very difficult to understand.

Yea that's what I thought. So I mean if you're working with a Windows toolchain you're still hosed. It's kind of a bummer, because basically this is only useful for Linux developers who want to develop Linux software on Windows. That's certainly a huge step in the right direction, and undeniably great, but it won't do anything to get Linux developers developing Windows software on Windows. That means no MSVC etc.

 

[MartyStu]

Yea that's what I thought. So I mean if you're working with a Windows toolchain you're still hosed. It's kind of a bummer, because basically this is only useful for Linux developers who want to develop Linux software on Windows. That's certainly a huge step in the right direction, and undeniably great, but it won't do anything to get Linux developers developing Windows software on Windows. That means no MSVC etc.

True, but developing windows software has always felt like developing Java: you are going to have a bad time if you do not buy into how things are done.

In short: yes, it is definitely pretty limited for now, but hopefully this is the beginning and not just a neat toy for those loath to use cygwin.

 

[uncelestial]

this article is trash. Powershell is THE command line tool for windows

The article is fine.

i asked if you can eloborate, i've never heard someone describe windows as a "Walled garden" No need to get your panties in a bunch. Also i could give two shits that you worked for microsoft. Most people i've dealt with that used to work there are arrogant pricks. I've had others tell me the same thing.

I don't really care whether you've heard about Microsoft being a walled garden or not.

 

[Santerestil]

Finally I won't need a VM to write my NANOWRIMO novel in VI.

Installing Vim is out of question, it isn't?

And for a not initiated, why everyone here is loathing Cygwin?

 

[le-seb]

And for a not initiated, why everyone here is loathing Cygwin?

Do you see what "seamless integration" means?
That's what Cygwin is not, from my experience.

 

[M3d10n]

Well, you can cross compile windows binaries from Linux, so it wouldn't be completely isolated. Also, grep all over dat C drive.

 

[gamz]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/6/11379280/windows-10-update-bash-command-line-features

Windows 10 14316 just dropped for preview member guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!