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> Most people

We'll I'm used to not being most people, but I'd much rather be able to produce a single identical binary for my users that works everywhere than the platform specific nonsense I have to go through right now. Having to maintain different special build processes for different platforms is a stupid waste of time.

Frankly this is how it always should have worked except for the monopolistic behavior of various platforms in the past.

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The binary is only one part of the puzzle (and largely solved by WSL). Installation/uninstallation and desktop integration is just as much of a hassle.

I don't get the argument, if the binary part is solved by WSL it isn't useless is it? Otherwise why would MS invest so much resources into it?

WSL can do a lot more than just run Linux binaries.

I don't think you can reasonably assume that people have WSL set up on Windows for the purposes of shipping desktop software. Nor does it cover Mac.

Well, there's orb on mac which is in some ways better/faster than WSL

> that works everywhere

This whole discussion is about pointing out that it kinda doesn't.

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