My God.....I actually understand what they are talking about here!
A bash shell is already available on *nix, Mac OS, Chrome OS, Solaris, etc. Are there really that many people who need this on Windows?
I already run Cygwin....
I don’t know if this is good or bad, but it sounds nifty.
Soon to be known as the WinBash Cannonball.
The amazing part is the Linux binaries under Windows 10 without a VM. That I want to see.
Of course this put’s Apple right in the cross hairs.
Dang it they are still behind - I’ve switched to zsh on my Mac and Linux machines.
I blame Donald Trump for Ubuntu, and Ted Cruz for Windows 10.
No thread is safe :)
This is not new. They have simply ported Bash to Windows. Windows (in theory) has been Posix (read: unix like) “compliant” for years. So the underpinnings for any *nix application to run on windows has been there since Windows NT. Many of us have been using Cygwin for years (which now makes me wonder if the MS version of the console properly emulates a VT terminal). And as a cheap trick they added in the APT package management with Ubuntu repositories (”apt-get”). I’m sure in a few years MS will sue Cannonical claiming they invented Bash and APT. FWIW I’m a Windows developer who plays with Linux at home and trys to weasel Cygwin into my workflow.