Windows and Linux co-development

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@OvermindDL1

Uhh, not to me, not even remotely… Plus I need to compile stuff to run on a Windows 2008 server that does not have WSL, thus compiling inside WSL I do not think will work well for that.

Cross-compilers work within WSL.

@OvermindDL1

That is such a wtf, why would powershell override such a basic command when an existing one exists on the path, like wtf…

You can’t expect Microsoft to know about every command that every OSS project has ever written. Two independent groups, neither of which heard of the other, picked the same three-letter command name. It actually happens a lot (Google’s Chromium conflicts with a game called Chromium, Rust the language conflicts with a game called Rust, multiple branches of mathematics want to claim Omega).

OTOH, overriding wget and curl was a horrible, and deliberate, choice of action.

@OvermindDL1

Yeah found that out, I have curl installed systemwide, tried using it in powershell and it just kind of puked at me, since it was not curl, like wtf… No shell should override any existing application with any command unless it does precisely the exact functionality or better (like how most linux shells override [ to work faster but otherwise identically).

Bash overrides time without providing the whole scope of functionality, so it’s not like it’s unprecedented. I just would’ve hoped people would learn better by now.